amulet
- Museum number
- 128857
- Description
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Mottled green stone amulet inscribed with incomplete spell listing names of Lamashtu; suspension lug; other side engraved with figure of Lamashtu.
- Production date
- 800BC-550BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.25 inches
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Width: 1.25 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G55/dc9)
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition of this collection was highlighted in the 'Annual Report of the General Progress of the Museums for the year 1936' (BM BM (Natural History) 1937, pp. 10-11) as "A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., and for the most part from known sites; specially selected to illustrate periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the collection".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 128857
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.254