- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet of glass. A brown-coloured bead, circular in section with flat, narrower ends. [BA [OPS move] 23/11/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Arab
- 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 Bead, Material Glass, Material Amber, Process Moulded, Process Polished, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 17 mm, Diameter: max 9 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.1366
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