- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; ovoid fluted blue glass bead. [ASh [OPS move] 06/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; ovoid fluted blue glass bead. One end of the bead tapers. Pierced longitudinally. [ASh [OPS move] 06/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Bead, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 13 mm, Length: max 19 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1642 Other numbers: A 70112 R 30247 ? 242
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