- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, almond, mounted in silver as a pendant [SM 30/06/2008]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Nut, Material Silver Metal, Process Beaten, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Height: max 33 mm, Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 18 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.705
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