'Against Twenty-Five and Thirty Devils' - Two Ethiopian Painted Amulets from the British Museum

• Authors: Balicka-Witakowska E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses two paintings on parchment preserved in the British Museum collection, one representing the cycle of Moses, the second St. Mary, St. George and a pair of suppliants. Both are found to be amulets, although they lack protective prayers, which is an unusual feature. Their effectiveness is based upon a carefully chosen set of apotropaic images.

Keywords

EN

ETHIOPIAN AMULETS (BRITISH MUSEUM COLLECTION)

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-46
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Balicka-Witakowska E.

• E. Balicka-Witakowska, Uppsala University, Institute of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala, Sweden

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01914096