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Amulets

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Images from the collections

Images about Amulets

75 images from works
  • M0016851: Contents of a breverl showing the emblems of various saints
  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • M0016769: Spanish amulets: cross of Caravaca
  • M0016777: Spanish compound amulets
  • M0016755: Spanish amulets shaped as open hands, fragments of glazed pottery (Andalusian), copper and blue enamel pendant, white metal pendant with Arabic inscription and a badger's hand
  • M0016858: Zahnfeige mounted as a pendant / M0016859: Wehen Kreuz double cross / M0016860: Heart shaped pendant / M0016861: Aetites for promoting childbirth / M0016862: Rock crystal mounted as pendant / M0016863: Two Krebsaugen
  • The book of talismans, amulets, and zodiacal gems / by William Thomas and Kate Pavitt.
  • M0016751: De Osma family hierlooms: badger's paw, coral & enamelled gold bell, 17th century
  • M0016759: Glass amulets and beads, Spanish
  • M0017989: Stone amuletic object in the form of a group of animals, Bolivia
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Works from the collections

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    Amulets and magic bowls : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.

    Naveh, Joseph. | Date: [1985], ©1985
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    Islamic talismanic tradition in nineteenth-century Asante / David Owusu-Ansah.

    Owusu-Ansah, David. | Date: [1991], ©1991
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    Two Yorkshire charms or amulets : exorcisms and adhurations / by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth.

    Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885. | Date: [1903]
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    The Evil Eye (ayin hara-ah) / by Harry Friedenwald.

    Friedenwald, Harry, 1864-1950. | Date: 1939
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    Sobre amuletos de los Pascuenses / Marcelo Bórmida.

    Bórmida, Marcelo. | Date: 1951
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Amulets and Charms
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