- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Roughly heart-shaped flat piece of marble. The top appears to have been perforated but this has broken off. There is an incised V-shape on one side. [RH [OPS move] 18/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1985
- Date collected
- By 1985
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Marble Stone, Process Carved, Process Polished, Process Ground, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 4 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Height: max 39 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.463
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