Porcelain Snail [Tiger Snail] Stock Image

by Kiefer

Description

Cyprae tigris (Indo-Pacific): These snails arrived in Europe in large numbers during the Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages. Women wore them as amulets,accompanying the dead as grave goods.

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