Magical Signs : An Extraordinary Phenomenon or Just Business as Usual?Analysing Decoration Patterns on Magical Gems

P. 59-83

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Magical Gem Amulets from Caesarea Maritima : Intact and Broken Hematite Intaglios
  • The Use of Engraved Gems and Rings in Ancient Jewish Magic
  • One God May Hide Another : Magical Gems in a Cross-Cultural Context
  • Magical Signs : An Extraordinary Phenomenon or Just Business as Usual?Analysing Decoration Patterns on Magical Gems
  • Magical Gems as Miniature Amuletic Statues
  • Jesus the Magician? : a Crucifi xion Amulet and its Date
  • Two Magical Gems from the Roman Cemetery in Thessaloniki
  • Pilulae and Bound Pendants: Roman and Merovingian Amulets
  • The Gems of Greco-Roman Literature : Real Features and Symbolic Reconfiguration
  • Iconographies of Ialdabaōth
  • Vom Erhellen des Verdunkelten und Sichtbarmachen des unsichtbar Gedachten : Zur Ausstellung als Medium der Wissenschaftskommunikation
  • Figuring out the Anguipes Gems, bis : A Statistical Overview
  • Mason or Priest? : a Comparison between Graeco-Roman Signs on Magical Amulets and Symbols in Egyptian Quarries
  • From Egyptian Traditions to Magical Gems : Possibilities and Pitfalls in Scholarly Analysis
  • Magical Gems from Collections in the Czech Republic
  • Solomon and Asmodaios on Greco-Roman Magical Amulets and Rings
  • Uterine Amulets : Amulets that Protect the Uterus or that Reinforce Erotic Desire?
  • The Sword of Dardanos : New Thoughts on a Magical Gem in Perugia
  • Dating Magical Gems
  • List of Contributors
  • Plates
• Information

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