- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, silver ex-voto in the shape of an arm. [RB 27/02/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Stamped, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 81 x 31 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.241 Other numbers: 454
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet, Religious Object, Religious Offering
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