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  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A memento mori, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Image shows coffin only)
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • A memento mori statue, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin.
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Four carved ivory amulets, Eskimo.
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone found inside the stomachs of an animal (bezoar stones) and its case. Made in India from a paste of clay, crushed shell, amber, musk and resin and used for numerous complaints such as poisons