Sujet
Magic Amulet inscribed with a Protective Prayer, A.D. 100-250. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Magic Amulet inscribed with a Protective Prayer, A.D. 100-250. Additional Info: Lens-shaped agate of grayish colour, which has suffered chipping on both faces. Both sides convex. On the obverse, a variation of a common magical incantation, the name Ablanathanalba. The lower part is written in a ‘winged’-formation, known as pterygoma, whereby the word is repeated but with each repetition, the initial letter is omitted. On the reverse, a portion of the protective prayer for the amulet’s bearer, “Deliver Gaia from fever.” A proposed restoration of the complete text, based on related spells in magical papyri, runs “Deliver Gaia from the fever and also the ‘chills’, and from all her headache.”
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM24A66_189
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
63,7Mo (1,5Mo) / 38,0cm x 42,0cm / 4488 x 4960 (300dpi)