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Tablet (Lamella) with an Incantation against Epilepsy, 3rd century A.D. Creator: Unknown.

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Tablet (Lamella) with an Incantation against Epilepsy, 3rd century A.D. Additional Info: A thin rectangular gold sheet inscribed on one side with a personal incantation against epilepsy (about thirty lines of Greek text, voces magicae and magical ‘characters’). It is creased from once having been rolled up. Notable are its distinctly Jewish (and possibly Christian) character, its use of different terms for epilepsy and the occurence of the "Gnostic" light-Aeon, Eleleth (line 30). It invokes the Jewish god under a variety of names as well as the angels and combines them with magic names and characters.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A66_459

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,7Mo (1,5Mo) / 35,6cm x 42,0cm / 4208 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy close up health healthcare religious protection country Rome religion metal belief color protected ancient Greek illness tablet gold Greece Roman text inscription location century protect protective ill antiquity image studio shot artefact concept close-up artifact closeup antiquities lettering Colour incantation Ancient Roman Ancient Rome inscribed 3rd century epilepsy gnostic Gnosticism object Lamella Unknown gold Heritage Art inscription Texts