- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, circular medal with suspension loop. Numerous inscriptions referring to Biblical passages surround with a Hebrew inscription on one side. The opposite side has a quatrefoil with the letters SNDB in its leaves.
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1910
- Date collected
- 1910ED
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Process Struck, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 65 mm, Height: max 8 mm, Height: max 75 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.618
Search terms: Religion, Insignia, Ornament, Writing, Medal, Amulet, Religious Object, Inscription, Pendant
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