The New Curse Tablet from Cos and the Lost Magical Handbook That Produced It.

A lead curse tablet found on the island of Cos has attracted scholarly interest, because of its affinities with the illustrations in the well-known magical handbook in Oslo (PGM XXXVI), but there are numerous other important similarities in their texts, especially their invocations of Typhon, the se...

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Publicado en:Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 146 - 173
Autor principal: Faraone, Christopher A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2025
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