- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, female figure carved from ?soapstone, depicted with the hands held in front of the body and breasts. [RB 13/06/2012]
- Long description
- Amulet, female figure carved from ?soapstone, depicted with the hands held in front of the body and breasts. There are incised vertical lines around the body crossed by one horizontal line, and there are also vertical lines down the back of the head. [RB 13/06/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Adrien de Mortillet
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1903
- Date collected
- 1903
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Material Steatite Stone, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 30 x 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1857 Other numbers: 3816 300414
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour in the pamphlet accompanying the Reading Room displays at the Welcome Collection with the caption “Female figure Soapstone? Bolivia RRa0154/1985.52.1857 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.”
1985.52.1857
Amulet, female figure carved from ?soapstone, depicted with the hands held in front of the body and breasts. [RB 13/06/2012]
1985.52.1857
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