- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; grey stone, globular in shape with pale yellow lines running across the surface. For a young married woman whose periods have not started. [SB [OPS Move] 20/09/2017]
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 19 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2012 Other numbers: A 108276 R 36818 2537/1938 513
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