- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a branch with thorns, said to be from the Tree of the Passion, which was supposedly used to make the Crown of Thorns. [ACA 24/04/2012]
- 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 Plant Thorn
- Dimensions
- Length: max 135 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1013 Other numbers: 2014
Search terms: Religion, Specimen, Plant, Amulet, Religious Object
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