amulet / Steatite

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1963.04.0008
Other Number: Bonner 099
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Object Name: amulet
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Amulets
Materials: Steatite
Weight: 2.92g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: yes
Earliest Date: 1
Latest Date: 499
Verbatim Date: 1st - 5th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World; The Art & Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Exhibition Curator: Allen, Marti Lu; Dix, T. Keith; Alvarez, Pablo
Exhibition Year: 2017
Publication Title: Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian
Publication Author: Bonner, Cambell
Publication Year: 1950
Class Title: Madness, Medicine, and Magic in the Middle East (F2018); Inscribing Power: Language and Writing in the Ancient World (F2018); The World Before 1492 (F2018); The Rise and Fall of Mediterranean Civilizations (F2018); Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2019); The Rise and Fall of Mediterranean Civilizations (F2019); Sickness, Health, and Trade Routes: Writing Premodern Global Medicine (F2019); Greek and Roman Magical Texts 003 (F2019); Greek and Roman Magical Texts 002 (F2019); Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2020); Searchers & Caesars: Place, Peril & Identity in Classical Antiquity (W2020); Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, and Manuscripts (W2020); The World Before 1492 (W2020); Lettered Worlds & Literary Imagination (W2022); Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2022); The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces (W2022); A Sea of Odysseys: Epic Journeys in the Mediterranean (W2022); Student Advisory Group Object Handling (W2022); Doing History (F2022); Monks, Demons, Hermits: On the Edge of Early Christian Practice (F2022); Intensive Latin (F2022); Madness, Medicine, and Magic in the Middle East (F2022); What is a Human? Nature and Knowledge Before Modernity (F2022); Elementary Greek (F2022); Doing History (W2023); Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2023); Disability in the Ancient Mediterranean (W2023); Introduction to Greek Archaeology (W2023); Doing History (W2023) Section 2; The Ancient Roman World (W2023)
Class Instructor: Crisostomo, Jay; Cipa, Erdem; Galaty, Michael; Respess, Amanda; Renberg, Gil; Davis, Katherine; Soter, Gina; Gruber, Christiane; Brown, Catherine; Stone, David; Stroebel, William; Person, Catherine; Carson, John; Muehlberger, Ellen; Neis, Rafe; Forsdyke, Sara; Selcer, Perrin; Katherine Davis; Lamond, Emily; Nevett, Lisa; Shin, Ian; Fielding, Ian
Class Department: MIDEAST; HISTORY; ANTHRARCH; CLCIV; HISTART; COMPLIT; CLARCH; Kelsey Museum; LATIN; GREEK; HIST
Class Number: 201; 291.001; 239; 287; 341.001; 195.002; 125.003; 125.002; 120.002; 490.001; 422.001; 424; 140.001; 202.002; 197.008; 193; 197.003; 101.001; 202.001; 197; 221; 202
Class Year: 2018; 2019; 2020; 2022; 2023
Class Semester: Fall; Winter
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 1096 x 1200
File Size: 93 KB
Record: 1963.04.0008
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1963.04.0008/1963_04_0008p01.tif

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