Green glazed pottery amulet in 10 pieces with a ball, crescent and two horn shapes. [SM 25/05/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Green glazed pottery amulet in 10 pieces with a ball, crescent and two horn shapes. [SM 25/05/2011]
Long description: Green glazed pottery amulet in 10 pieces with a ball, crescent and two horn shapes. The different sections were joined together with wire suspension loops. When the object was intact it would have had the ball at the top with a piece of pink yarn tied to the top of it. Hanging beneath the ball would have been a crescent shape that curved down. Attached to either end of this would have been the two horn shapes. Currently the ball is in one piece, the pink yarn is detached, the crescent is in five pieces with a piece of pink textile attached to it, one horn is in two pieces and the other is only one piece. The top is missing. [SM 25/05/2011]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Naples
Cultural groups: Italian
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 Pottery, Material Pigment, Material Metal Wire, Material Textile, Material Yarn, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Glazed, Process Bent, Process Woven, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Width: max 32 mm largest fragment, Length: max 58 mm largest fragment
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.51.1069 Other numbers: COM A 176603 AM C lot 201

Search terms: Religion, Pottery, Amulet

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