Amuletic Pendant
On this side of the pendant is an eye, attacked by a lion, snake, scorpion, stork, and spears. According to the Testament of Solomon, a magical text dating to before the 3rd century AD. The image of the "much suffering eye" protected the wearer from the Evil Eye, which could d...
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Artifact
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22369
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L. Alexander Wolfe, Jerusalem, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Sale [Auction XXIII], Frank Sternberg, Zurich, November 20, 1989, no. 176; Walters Art Museum, 1989, by purchase.
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CC0
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en
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4
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