- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, ?silver hand with 2 cut out sections and faintly incised feathered line details. Threaded onto black string with [1985.50.1120 .1 - .3] [EH [OPS move] 9/11/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Arab
- Person
- Field collector Henry Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 1 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.1120.4
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