- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; glass bead with gold markings. [ASh [OPS move] 07/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; glass bead with gold decorative markings of wavy and straight bands painted onto the surface of the beads. Pierced longitudinally. Used by women to cure swelling in the neck. [ASh [OPS move] 07/09/2017]
- 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 Bead, Material Glass, Material Pigment, Process Perforated, Process Decorated, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 16 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1699 Other numbers: A 70134 R 30312 ? 218
1985.54.1699
Amulet; glass bead with gold markings. [ASh [OPS move] 07/09/2017]
1985.54.1699
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