- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a figure, depicted carrying an object, carved from ?soapstone, with traces of ?pigment in the incisions. [ACA 14/06/2012]
- 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, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Height: max 39 mm, Width: max 19 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1881 Other numbers: 3844 R 2007/ 1937
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