- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, iron ex-voto in the shape of a leg, which is tubular and hollow, and has a perforation for suspension. [RB 22/03/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1891
- Date collected
- 1891
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Process Perforated, Process Soldered
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 102 x 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.591 Other numbers: 1117
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Ornament, Amulet, Pendant, Religious Offering, Religious Object
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