Magical Gems in Their Contexts: Proceedings of the international Workshop held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16-18 February 2012

by Kata Endreffy (Editor), Arpad Miklos Nagy (Editor), Jeffrey Spier (Editor)

The studies in this book derive from an international workshop held in Budapest in 2012 on magical gems: precious stone amulets engraved with inscriptions, images and magical signs, which represent the most sophisticated amulet type of the Roman Imperial Period. With contributors from a number of scholarly disciplines (classical archaeology, classical philology, Egyptology, Jewish studies, history of religions), the book provides a comprehensive overview of its subject, highlighting the many perspectives from which it can be studied, and bringing this long neglected object group on the wider horizons of classical research.

340 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2019