Pink stone "Nagar el-dud"

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Pink stone "Nagar el-dud", vernacular, to cleanse the eyes, for women only, Lebanon(?), 1871-1933

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A665843
Materials:
stone
Measurements:
length 22 mm
width 13 mm
thickness 12 mm
type:
therapeutic amulets
credit:
Blackman