- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Silver votive offering in the shape of a sheep. With punched detail decoration of the features and a perforation at the top of the object. [SM 19/01/2011]
- 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 Silver Metal, Process Punched, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 71 mm, Length: max 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.108 Other numbers: B A 176737 VO C lot 206
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet, Religious Offering, Animal Figure
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