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A Reminiscence of Paul on a Coin Amulet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2011
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Mr. Henri Seyrig, Director of the French Archaeological Institute at Beyrouth, a friend to whom my studies of magical amulets owe as steadily increasing debt, has added another to his many contributions by sending me a careful copy of the inscription here discussed (letter of March II, 1949). It was incised upon a Roman silver denarius (diameter 15 mm.), both sides of which had been smoothed off in order to receive it. Of the obverse design Mr. Seyrig reports that nothing can be seen; of the reverse type there remains the outline of a galley with oars, which moves to the right.
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1 On Roman coins of the Empire, galleys propelled by oars were usually shown with the oars at the end of the stroke, the blades sloping towards the stern of the vessel. On earlier coins, as on Greek vases, this convention was not regularly observed.
2 Numismatic Chronicle, 1932, pp. 54–57.
3 Larfeld, Handb. der griech. Epigraphik, III, pp. 490–495.
4 Larfeld, p. 495; O. Guéraud, Bull. soc. arch. Alex. 32 (1938), 21.
5 E.g., Gen. 4.26, Ps. 116.17, 1 Coi. 1.2.
6 E. Williger, Hagios (RGVV 19,1), esp. 80–108.
7 Strack-Billerbeck, Kommentar zum N.T. aus Talmud und Midrasch, II, 316; McCasland in JBL 68, p. 109.
8 Ps. 33. 31; 76.1; 111.9; 1 Clem. 58, 64; Herm. Vis. 4.1.3.
9 See Strack-Billerbeck, III, p. 336.
10 Jahreshefte des öst. Inst. 23, Beiblatt 93–94.
11 Wörterbuch der griech. Papyrusurkunden.
12 Epist. 121. 10.4 (CSEL 56, p. 42).
13 In Texts and Studies IX, 2, p. 146.
14 H. Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, III, PI. 68, 19; date ca. A.D. 125–128.