- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rectangular carved ?soapstone amulet, incised decoration on three sides with lines and dots, with traces of ?pigment in the incisions. [ACA 15/06/2012]
- 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
- Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1896 Other numbers: 3860 3098 R 2016/ 1937
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