文档介绍：Medieval Byzantine Magical Amulets and Their Tradition
Author(s): Jeffrey Spier
Source: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 56, (1993), pp. 25-62
Published by: The Warburg Institute
Stable URL: ble/751363
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MEDIEVAL BYZANTINE MAGICAL AMULETS
AND THEIR TRADITION*
Jeffrey Spier
diverse yet distinctive group of magical amulets has periodically attracted
the attention of scholars from Renaissance times to the present. The amulets
take many forms, including engraved gems and cameos, enamel pendants,
die-struck bronze tokens, cast or engraved pendants of gold, silver, bronze, and
lead, and rings of silver and bronze. All share mon motif-an enigmatic rep-
resentation of a face from which radiates a varying number of serpents-and this
device is usually panied by a Greek inscription, often abbreviated or blun-
dered, beginning oTgrEpaCiekavr\ L?,avcLgVvrq... ('w