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1985.51.15

Votive offering, in the shape of a woman with a screw/bolt attached through a perforation at the top of the object. [SM 07/01/2011]

1985.51.15

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Collection type
Object
Description
Votive offering, in the shape of a woman with a screw/bolt attached through a perforation at the top of the object. [SM 07/01/2011]
Long description
Votive offering, in the shape of a woman with a screw/bolt attached through a perforation at the top of the object. The woman is partially naked and wrapped in a long piece of fabric. Her left hand is missing and her right hand is holding something. [SM 07/01/2011]
Person
Field collector Edward Lovett
PRM source Wellcome Institute
PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1933
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes
Material Metal, Material Silver Metal, Process Repoussé, Process Perforated, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions
Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 134 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1985.51.15 Other numbers: B A 176655 VO C lot 203

Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet, Religious Offering

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