- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, bead made of green glass, which is roughly spherical in shape. Used as a cure for a swollen neck or throat caused by a cold. [ASh [OPS move] 07/11/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 15 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2421 Other numbers: A 107391 R 38473 256
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