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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Viktoria Mukobenova, Two Amulets
, 2018 Viktoria relays a story about two amulets called mird. She says that in the past Kalmyk households kept mird amulets. When men left for war their family members would put a mird amulet around their neck as protection.
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A Newly Discovered “Bull Head Amulet” from Tell El-Farkha, Egypt
Studies in Ancient Art and CivilizationIn 2022, a new object fitting the so-called “bull head amulets” category was discovered at Tell el-Farkha in layers related to the late Predynastic period (Naqada IID2-IIIA, hereafter abbreviated as NIID2-NIIIA).
Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin
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Superstitions and folk rites in the Samara, Saratov and Penza Governorates
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019 Often in everyday life we have to deal with various signs and superstitions that are quite tenacious, despite their incompatibility with Orthodoxy. Superstitions usually refer to the stories of the water spirit, bogie, puck, mermaids, healers, sorcerers,
S. A. Isaichev
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Alena Lidzhieva, Amulets, Talismans and Other Religious Objects
, 2018 Alena says that amulets for personal use should not come from laypeople but be requested from monks in Buddhist temples. Amulets given by laypeople bring nothing good. Amulets are small bags that hold paper prayers inside.
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Protection of Children? A Case Study from the Early Iron Age Cemetery of Quattro Fontanili, Veii [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2018 The paper deals with artefacts with a possible apotropaic function from the Early Iron Age cemetery of Quattro Fontanili at Veii. I have analysed mostly various types of pendants and beads that could have had – besides their ornamental function – also a ...
Katarína Hladíková
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Hair-Snakes. To the Issue of the Semantics of Byzantine Phylacteries with “Hystera”
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. The article is devoted to analyzing the specific type of Byzantine phylacteries (amulets), which are a vivid manifestation of folk beliefs that combine pagan, magical and Christian components.
Nikolay D. Barabanov
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Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 In some Greek and Latin testimonies of Late Antiquity, several stones are used as core material in the making of different objects; these objects are described as jewels (body ornament) and as amulets (powerful objects).
Thomas Galoppin
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The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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Scribal Features of Scriptural Amulets
, 2017 This chapter compares, in groups, the formulation and writing of amulets that draw on Christian scriptures: titles and opening words from the gospels and LXX Psalm 90; a short text from a gospel; Jesus’ correspondence with Abgar; the Lord’s Prayer; LXX ...
Theodore de Bruyn
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