- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Bead, made from light blue coloured glass. Spherical in shape, with some chips around the central perforation. [ASh [OPS move] 12/12/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 12 mm, Height: max 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3174 Other numbers: 64
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