- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone. Cream in colour, roughly semi-transparent. There are three flat sides, the surface is smooth. [AB [OPS Move] 13/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Height: max 13 mm, Width: max 15 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1097 Other numbers: A 110469 510
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