Gold Has Many Uses

In this paper, I discuss a group of gold tablets from graves in Judaea-Palaestina from about 200 CE. I connect the text in these tablets with a well known funerary acclamation that originated in the East and was brought to the Latin West by immigrants and argue, against earlier scholars, that these...

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Main Author: Graf, Fritz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2016]
In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-24
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judea / Votive image / Gold / Grave furnishings
IxTheo Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
HH Archaeology
KBL Near East and North Africa
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Summary:In this paper, I discuss a group of gold tablets from graves in Judaea-Palaestina from about 200 CE. I connect the text in these tablets with a well known funerary acclamation that originated in the East and was brought to the Latin West by immigrants and argue, against earlier scholars, that these tablets mark the very home of this acclamation and express a peculiar eschatology. I end with remarks on the multiple uses of inscribed gold tablets in ancient religions.
ISSN:1868-8888
Contains:Enthalten in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/arege-2015-0002