- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; dark grey stone. [ASh [OPS move] 12/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; dark grey stone with white veins running through it. Oblong in shape with one slightly bulbous end. [ASh [OPS move] 12/09/2017]
- 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 14 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1809 Other numbers: A 170078 13780/1936
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