amulet

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Object Type
Museum number: 125770
Description: Black serpentine amulet in the form of two ajoined ram's or bull's heads both facing outwards; hole pierced through vertically; decorated with stamped circles; abraded.
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Brak (Syria)
Materials
Technique: pierced; stamped
Dimensions: Length: 15 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Mallowan M E L 1947a / Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar (pl.XV,14); Tait 1976 / Jewellery Through 7000 Years (no.333 (part))
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair; abraded.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 125770
Registration number: 1937,1211.51

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