Lamella

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Lamella

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Date
2nd century A.D.
Medium
Silver
Culture
Roman
Department
Texts
Institution
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Contains approximately 25 lines of Greek, as well as magical characters and Semitic letter-forms. The meaningful Greek, at the beginning of the text, translates: "In the name of the only God I make this phylactery....(followed by magical words).

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