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Magical Gems In their Contexts. Proceedings of the International Workshop held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16-18 February 2012.

Book information

Publisher
L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Year
2019
ISBN
8891312975, 9788891312976, 9788891313003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5931176 bytes)
Series
Studia Archaeologica, 229
Pages
382\383
Time added
2024-12-03 16:34:20

Description

The studies in this book derive from an international workshop held in Budapest in 2012 on magical gems: precious stone amulets engraved with inscriptions, images and magical signs, which represent the most sophisticated amulet type of the Roman Imperial Period. With contributors from a number of scholarly disciplines (classical archaeology, classical philology, Egyptology, Jewish studies, history of religions), the book provides a comprehensive overview of its subject, highlighting the many perspectives from which it can be studied, and bringing this long neglected object group on the wider horizons of classical research.

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