Amulet for protection (Gaster Amulet 27)
A amulet for protection against fever.
Gaster Amulet 27 by The John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Sketchfab
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 27
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: Mecca (today in Saudi Arabia)
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): No linguistic content
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Mode: Worn or carried on the person.
- Function: Protection against fever.
- Note(s):
Gaster's note attached: "Against fever. made of earth taken from the precincts of the Holy Mosque at Mecca. dipped in blood of one of the sacrifices brought there".
- Physical Description:
A dried mud with several coloured tapes on it, and some blood stains.
- Extent: height: 45 mm, width: 30 mm.
- Material(s): Dried mud; Leather; Blood
- Format: Amulet
- Condition:
Four yellow tapes and a single teal tape was probably attached to it later, to prevent it from falling apart.
- Shape: cone-shaped
- Decoration:
A cone-shaped dried mud with leather stripe attached to its top; several tapes attached to the side (probably added at a later stage).
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 27
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: Mecca (today in Saudi Arabia)
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): No linguistic content
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Mode: Worn or carried on the person.
- Function: Protection against fever.
- Note(s):
Gaster's note attached: "Against fever. made of earth taken from the precincts of the Holy Mosque at Mecca. dipped in blood of one of the sacrifices brought there".
- Physical Description:
A dried mud with several coloured tapes on it, and some blood stains.
- Extent: height: 45 mm, width: 30 mm.
- Material(s): Dried mud; Leather; Blood
- Format: Amulet
- Condition:
Four yellow tapes and a single teal tape was probably attached to it later, to prevent it from falling apart.
- Shape: cone-shaped
- Decoration:
A cone-shaped dried mud with leather stripe attached to its top; several tapes attached to the side (probably added at a later stage).
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
