- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, carved from ?soapstone and incised with concentric circles around five of the points. [ACA 19/06/2012]
- 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
- Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1912 Other numbers: 3877 R 1987/ 1937
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