- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Brown stone hourglass shape with a smooth surface. Used to cure a fever [SB [OPS Move] 08/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 25 mm, Length: max 54 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.723 Other numbers: A 107868 R 37107 95
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