Abstract
Originally reported to have been acquired on the antiquities market (and therefore of unknown provenance), the amulet is now reported to have come from Aksaray in central Turkey, according to Museum records. Aksaray represents ancient Colonia Archelais, formerly the Greek city Garsaura, or perhaps Philomelion, according to the report of J.& R. Robert in Bulletin Epigraphique 91 (1978), p. 393, no. 33; see, further, R. P. Harper, art. “Colonia Archelais,” in R. Stillwell, ed. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, 1976), p. 232. The first editions published the photograph of the amulet from the back side, hence Carratelli’s facsimile, for example, is reversed. Jordan rectified the text and improved the reading considerably.
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G. Neumann, “Epigraphische Mitteilungen,” Kadmos 8 (1969), p. 170f. (Tafel a,b)
G. Pugliese Carratelli, “Epigrafe Magica Anatolica,” La Parola del Passato 24 (1969), p. 307
D. R. Jordan, “A Silver Phylactery at Istanbul” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28 (1978), pp. 84–86; pl. XIII (b).
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Kotansky, R. (1994). Magic Signs and Names. In: Greek Magical Amulets. Papyrologica Coloniensia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20312-4_34
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