Lead Foil Magic Amulet 1
Lead Foil Magic Amulet 2
Lead
Levant or Asia Minor
Late Roman-Byzantine period
Fourth -sixth centuries CE
22. Width- 5.1 cm, height- 4.3 cm,
23. Width- 4.8 cm, height- 4.2 cm,
Although not yet deciphered, it should be noted from the forms of the letters that these amulets were probably written in Aramaic or Hebrew. Further, the letters were incised in the direction that they were rolled, which is unusual, but not unknown. DL
Unpublished
Joan Goodnick Westenholz. Three Faces of Monotheism. Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, 2007. pp. 64-65.