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A brick sarcophagus, discovered sometime around 1960–1965 and containing a leaden coffin with the skeletal remains of a child, yielded the following grave goods: fragments of ceramic ware; two gold earrings; a gold setting enclosing an engraved red jasper depicting Sol in a quadriga; another gold setting enclosing a Roman Republican coin (Obv.: Roma; Rev.: Sol in quadriga); and a gold lamella. The lamella had been folded once horizontally and placed on the deceased in the manner of the ‘Orphic’ tablets. The grave is datable to the 3rd/4th cent. A.D.
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Kotansky, R. (1994). A Magical Underworld ‘Totenpaß’ . In: Greek Magical Amulets. Papyrologica Coloniensia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20312-4_23
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