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A Gnostic Amulet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2011

James H. Oliver
James H. Oliver
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Columbia University, New York.
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Extract

The writer has in his possession a small octagonal amulet of a lavender or greyish stone, which is engraved on six sides and which is stated on reliable authority to have come from Samsun in Pontus, near the ancient town of Amisus. Height, 0.015 m.; length, 0.03 m.; thickness, 0.007 m. Height of Letters, 0.002 m.

Type
Research Article
Information
Harvard Theological Review , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , October 1940 , pp. 321
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1940

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References

1 Preisendanz, K., Papyri Graecae Magicae, II (Leipzig and Berlin, Teubner, 1931), no. XII, 150–151Google Scholar: ὄνομά σοι· ἡιιουαθι, ψρηπνουανερτηρ, διοχασπαρα, Ζαραχω᾽, ὂν καλοῦσι Βαλχάμ. The text, written on the verso of the papyrus, contains magical prescriptions, and it dates from the first half of the fourth century after Christ. Further contributions to the reading and interpretation of it have been made by Schmidt, K. Fr. W., Philologische Wochenschrift, LV (1935), 1174–1179.Google Scholar

2 PGM, no. XII, 166.