- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; blue ovoid glass bead. The surface of the bead is faceted. Hung around the neck and used as a cure for pain in the "kalb". [SB [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 7 mm, Length: max 12 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1661 Other numbers: A 70331 R 30292 140
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