A gold lamella for ‘Blessed’ Abalala
| dc.creator | Kotansky, Roy D. | |
| dc.date | 2020-07-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-28T11:06:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-28T11:06:27Z | |
| dc.description | This article examines a previously unpublished gold lamella of unknown provenance, datable on palaeographical grounds to the 1st century BCE, give-or-take a half century, either side. The tablet preserves three words written in Greek letters that may contain a GrecoPersian formula of protection in the afterlife for its bearer, Abalala, a name of pre-Islamic extraction. The study compares the formula with those on a number of shorter ‘Orphic’ gold lamellae to show that the tiny piece represents a ‘Totenpaß’ for the beneficent dead, rather than a protective charm (phylactery) with the usual voces magicae, although the distinction between magic words and meaningful text is not always clear in such instances. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7820 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.22315/ACD/2016/1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2437/317239 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Debrecen. | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7820/7156 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2016 Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis | |
| dc.source | Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis; Vol. 52 (2016); 7–20 | |
| dc.source | 2732-3390 | |
| dc.source | 0418-453X | |
| dc.subject | Gold amulet | |
| dc.subject | Orphic gold lamellae | |
| dc.subject | Totenpaß | |
| dc.subject | Greco-Persian afterlife beliefs | |
| dc.subject | Abalala | |
| dc.title | A gold lamella for ‘Blessed’ Abalala | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article |
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