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A Graeco-Egyptian Amulet From a Romano-British Site at Welwyn, Herts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

R. P. Wright
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The amulet here described was found in April 1963 by Mr. A. G. Rook on a Romano-British site at Dicket Mead, Lockleys, Welwyn. He has kindly provided an interim description of the site and its associated finds and a discussion of the material from which the amulet was made. The object has now been placed on loan in the Verulamium Museum.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , September 1964 , pp. 143 - 146
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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References

page 143 note 1 O.S. map reference TL 235161. Ward-Perkins, J. B., Antiq. Journ. xviii (1938), 339–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 143 note 2 The ‘By-pass’ site; the finds, as yet unpublished, are in Letchworth Museum.

page 143 note 3 Mr. R. A. G. Carson, of the British Museum Department of Coins and Medals, kindly supplied this information; cf. Carson, R. A. G., Hill, P. V., Kent, J. P. C., Late Roman Bronze Coinage (London, 1960), ii, 499.Google Scholar

page 143 note 4 Ward-Perkins, loc. cit., 351.

page 144 note 1 The examination was kindly carried out at the British Museum Research Laboratory. As the object after lengthy exposure to damp conditions was unduly soft it seemed wise to consolidate it without delay. This was done with a 5 per cent. solution of Maranyl Nylon in a solution of methyl alcohol.

page 144 note 2 For clearer examples and a discussion see Bonner, , Hesperia, xx (1951), 327Google Scholar, pl. 97, no. 27; Barb, A. A., Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, xvi (1953), 225, note 129, pl. 31 g.Google Scholar

page 144 note 3 Musée Beige, xviii (1914), 75–88.

page 144 note 4 Bonner, Campbell, Studies in magical amulets (Michigan, 1950)Google Scholar, ch. 6, ‘The curse of Eve’. The closest parallels seem to be pl. vi, no. 139, and id. Hesperia, xx (1951), pl. 97, no. 27.

page 144 note 5 Bonner, Amulets, 85, no. 133; Barb, loc. Cit. 194, pl. 25 a.

page 144 note 6 Galen (A.D. 129–c. 199) de uteri dissectione (Kühn ed.), ix, § 280, describes these κεραίαι or horns, and is critical of Aristotle, Herophilus, and others for having failed to recognize them, despite their skill in dissection. Professor F. W. Walbank kindly drew Mr. Rook's attention to this passage.

page 146 note 1 Hesperia, loc. cit., 327.

page 146 note 2 Barb, loc. cit., n. 23.

page 146 note 3 See above, p. 144, n. 1.

page 146 note 4 de mat. medica 5, 142.

page 147 note 1 For the background of this century see pp. 114–15 in Dr. Barb's chapter in Momigliano, A. (ed.), The conflict between paganism and Christianity (Oxford, 1963).Google Scholar

page 147 note 2 See Wessely, K., Ephesia Grammata (Wien, 1886)Google Scholar, and Preisendanz, K., Papyri Graecae Magicae (Leipzig, Berlin, 1928–31), passim.Google Scholar