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Objects: Amulet

Artefact's name: Incised pebble with wolf images
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 20.000 - 10.000 bc
Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini
Period: Late Epigravettian
[ more info / 3d ] The pebbele carved with the figure of the wolf is probably the masterpiece found in Grotta Polesini (Roma). The marks the marks that covered this figure are referable to cult activities finalized to propitiate hunt.


Artefact's name: Bone Artefact
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 10.000 - 7.000 bc
Museum of: RNHM - Romanian National History Museum
Period: Epipaleolithic
[ more info / 3d ] An old and strange artefact made of bone, with a conspicuous decor


Artefact's name: Ring shaped amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Archaeological Museum Athens
Period: Final Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] Gold ring-shaped amulet of hammered sheet depicting a very schematised female figure.


Artefact's name: Stone anthropomorphic amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Archaeological Museum Athens
Period: Late Neolithic or Final Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] Stone anthropomorphic amulet


Artefact's name: Stone horned amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Archaeological Museum Athens
Period: Late Neolithic II
[ more info / 3d ] Stone anthropomorphic amulet


Artefact's name: Golden disc from Stollhof
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: Natural History Museum of Wien
Period: Late Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] Two golden discs made of gold sheets, sometimes regarded as stylised symbols of a goddess.


Artefact's name: Pectoral
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Rousse Regional Museum of History
Period: Late Chalcolithic
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Artefact's name: Amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Rousse Regional Museum of History
Period: Middle Chalcolithic
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Artefact's name: Oscillum
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 2.000 - 0 bc
Museum of: Museo di preistoria e protostoria Valle del Fiora di Manciano
Period: Recent/Final Bronze Age
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Artefact's name: Horse figurine
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 2.000 - 0 bc
Museum of: Museo di preistoria e protostoria Valle del Fiora di Manciano
Period: Recent/Final Bronze Age
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Artefact's name: Spondylus amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History
Period: Early Neolithic
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Artefact's name: Bone amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History
Period: Late Neolithic
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Artefact's name: "Sciptre-token"
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History
Period: Early Neolithic
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Artefact's name: Marble amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: Regional History Museum Academician Jordan Ivanov
Period: Early
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Artefact's name: Marble amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: Regional History Museum Academician Jordan Ivanov
Period: Early
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Artefact's name: Turdas incised amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: The Deva Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation
Period: Early Eneolithic
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Artefact's name: Tablita Tartaria no. 1
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Transylvanian History Museum di Cluj-Napoca
Period: Developed Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] The Tărtăria tablets bear incised symbols that could represent the earliest known form of writing in the world. Subsequent radiocarbon dating on the Tărtăria finds pushed the date of the tablets (and therefore of the whole Vinča culture) much further back, to as long ago as 5500 BC, the time of the time of the early Eridu phase of the Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia.


Artefact's name: Clay pendant
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: Alexandria
Period: Neolithic
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Artefact's name: Zoomorphic amulet
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: Razgrad
Period: 7000-5000 BC
[ more info / 3d ] Stylized zoomorphic figure with two openings in the upper part


Artefact's name: Tablet Tartaria no. 2
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Transylvanian History Museum di Cluj-Napoca
Period: Developed Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] The famous tables are inscribed with symbols that,at the time of their discovery, were considered to be samples of Sumerian proto-writing. Newest methods of dating them entitled some researchers to state that the tablets could represent the oldest writing in the world.


Artefact's name: Tartaria tablet no. 3
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Transylvanian History Museum di Cluj-Napoca
Period: Developed Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] The famous tables are inscribed with symbols that, at the time of their discovery, were considered to be samples of Sumerian proto-writing. Newest methods of dating them entitled some researchers to state that the tablets could represent the oldest writing in the world.


Artefact's name: "Bird" Idol-Pendant
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Transylvanian History Museum di Cluj-Napoca
Period: Middle Copper Age
[ more info / 3d ] The oldest solid gold treasury ever unearthed in Romania belonging to the Neolithic, was found in Sălaj at Moigrad.


Artefact's name: Black cultic disc
Object type: Amulet
Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc
Museum of: National Transylvanian History Museum di Cluj-Napoca
Period: Late Neolithic
[ more info / 3d ] The famous tables are inscribed with symbols that,at the time of their discovery, were considered to be samples of Sumerian proto-writing. Newest methods of dating them entitled some researchers to state that the tablets could represent the oldest writing in the world.




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