- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, in the shape of a clenched fist, holding a ?stick and an object in the palm, carved in ?soapstone. [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 26 mm, Length: max 31 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1927 Other numbers: 3897 R 1767/ 1937 3030
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