- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; semitransparent white stone, diamond shaped with one flat edge. Used as a love charm. [ASh [OPS move] 20/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 28 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2678 Other numbers: A 110153 193
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