Amulet, consisting of an artificial horn made from the lip of a conch shell, with a metal wire suspension loop. [SM 26/05/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet, consisting of an artificial horn made from the lip of a conch shell, with a metal wire suspension loop. [SM 26/05/2011]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Naples
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 Conch Shell, Material Metal Wire, Process Perforated, Process Carved, Process Bent
Dimensions: Length x Width: max 190 x 25 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.51.715 Other numbers: RR A 176577 AM C lot 198
Research and responses: Please note: The Wellcome Card Catalogue Entry gives an incorrect description of the object. Lovett states in an article for Folklore [see publications field] that the object is made from the lip of a conch shell [SM 10/06/2011]
Associated publications: Published in "Amulets from Costers' Barrows in London, Rome, and Naples" by Edward Lovett, published in Folklore, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 30, 1909) pp 70-71, description and photograph [plate III, Fig. 9]. "an artificial horn cut from the lip of a conch shell." A copy has been placed in the Related Documents File for 1985.51. [SM 10/06/2011]

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