- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a folded piece of paper. Six-pointed star with Hebrew inscription inside it and the number '1' below in ink. [EH [OPS move] 13/11/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Henry Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Process Written, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 34 mm, Width: max 26 mm, Depth: max 1 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.1157
Search terms: Religion, Writing, Amulet, Inscription
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