- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, ornate hollow silver pendant inscribed with Hebrew characters. The amulet is suspended from short chain. [CW [OPS move] 8/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1919
- Date collected
- 1919
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Stamped, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 179 mm including chain, Width: max 77 mm, Depth: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.608
Search terms: Religion, Writing, Ornament, Amulet, Inscription, Pendant
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