- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from greyish-brown coloured stone, with white veins. Flat, and sub rectangular in shape. Worn by pregnant women to protect the unborn child. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 84 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1398 Other numbers: A 108307 / R 36736 544
1985.54.1398
Amulet, made from greyish-brown coloured stone, with white veins. Flat, and sub rectangular in shape. Worn by pregnant women to protect the unborn child. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/03/2017]
1985.54.1398
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