- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, light brown stone of irregular shape with a pitted and uneven surface. For swellings on the thigh. [JC [OPS] 07/03/2017]
- 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
- Depth: max 24 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 39 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.776 Other numbers: A 107386 R 38632 251
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