Roy Kotansky
Biographic Data
| ID | 701416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Kotansky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotansky |
| SIGNATURE | KOTANSKY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Santa Monica |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Divining Gospel
Jeff W. Childers, Divining Gospel: Oracles of Interpretation in a Syriac Manuscript of John, Manuscripta Biblica 4 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), xi + 230 pp., ISBN 978–3-11–061721–4
A Bronze »Rider Saint« Pendant with the Lord's Prayer
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Ancient Christian Magic
Magic in the Ancient World. Fritz Graf , Franklin Philip
The “Horned Hunter” on a Lost Gnostic Gem
The noted Provencal antiquarian Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), perhaps the most dedicated of an international circle of acquaintances studying and collecting classical antiquities in the early seventeenth century, took an especially keen interest in ancient gems. With his friend, the painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), he planned an extensive publication on the subject that unfortunately never saw completion. Although Peiresc foc…
A Lex Sacra from Selinous
Protection for Phaeinos from Demons
The British Museum acquired this piece in 1867, though nothing of the exact circumstances of discovery are recorded. Amphipolis, known among other things for its gold and silver mines, has also yielded many gravegoods from all periods; note D. Lazarides, art. "Amphipolis," in R. Stillwell, ed. The Princeton Encylopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, 1976), p. 51 f. It is likely that this piece was recovered from a gravesite.
A Liturgical Exorcistic Amulet
In 1924, Robinson dug up "three feet above the original pavement in the south portion of the colonnade behind the Augustus temple" a bronze tubular capsule (Robinson 1953:172). The silver tablet herewith described was found tightly rolled up inside the bronze tube. On the site, see David M. Robinson, "Roman Sculptures from Colonia Caesarea (Pisidian Antioch)," The Art Bulletin 9 (1926), pp. 5–69; figs. 2,3; further, on the excavations there, incl…
Amulet to Expel an Evil Spirit
According to Emil Hübner the piece was found in Rome in the 1830's and formed part of the private collection of the Principe de Anglona. The exact circumstances regarding the lamella's discovery are not known. No facsimile or photograph of the piece has ever been produced, and its present location is not known. The tablet was apparently intact.
A Xαριτήσιον
Wortmann first published this text in 1968 without photograph or drawing. Daniel in Daniel & Maltomini:1992 gives an improved reading and correctly redated the piece from the sixth century A.D. (Wortmann) to the second or third. Wortmann also misidentified the material as lead. A still newer reading, given below, differs in some details from that given in Daniel & Maltomini 1991:66. We also publish a full commentary and facsimile — one made from …
Aphrodite’s Name for Favor and Success
Wessely reports only that this gold amulet was found in Saloniki and had originally been rolled up. Palaeographically the script dates to the 2nd cent. A. D. The text preserves a spell for favor and love. The top six lines are separated from the bottom six by a straight-ruled line running across the width of the tablet.
Fragment of an Amulet
The lamella was found in a bronze bulla folded up tightly (three times vertically; once, horizontally), at the gravefield in Aranyhegy-árok. A coin of Trajan (98–117 A.D.) was found with it, suggesting a date of deposit in the second century A.D., presumably at the time when the city was still a municipium (124 A.D.), but not yet a colonia (194 A.D.). On the site, in general, see C. F. Giuliani, art. "Aquincum," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Clas…
‘King of Kings’ on an Amulet from Pontus
The tablet was first published with facsimile and text (but no commentary) by Pétridès 1905:88–90. Wünsch's (1909:24–32) edition betrays no apparent knowledge of Pétridès. The text is intact, though the photograph, herewith published, shows that a bit of the upper right has broken off since the publication of Pértridès' and Wünsch's editions. The piece was found in a grave, rolled up in a bronze tube (L. 5.2 cm)., at the Pontic city of Amisos, on…
Latin Fragment from a Romano-Celtic Temple
This fragment of a gold amulet was found around 1968 at the site of a Romano-Celtic temple, located north of Woodeaton, 4–5 miles from Oxford (see R. Goodchild & J. Kirk, "The Romano-Celtic Temple at Woodeaton," Oxoniensia 19 [1954], pp. 15–37). Excavations first confirmed in 1952 the existence of a small rectangular temple within a temenos enclosure. Researchers distinguish two temple periods: the first dating to the Roman's initial occupation o…
An Exorcism for a Young Girl
Preisendanz 1935:160 reports that this piece was found in 1897 in a child's grave on Mt. Sûr-Taš on the Sea of Azov (Crimea Peninsula). Pridik 1899:124 is the only previous edition of this lamella, The piece was found in a tiny cylindrical capsule with ringlets, a capsule that Pridik did not publish. For help with translating Pridik's Russian article, 1 would like to thank Frau Hanne Hagedorn (Tübingen).
House Amulet of John and Georgia
This amulet, acquired by the Greek Archaeological Society in 1878, was said to have been found in a grave at an undisclosed site in Phthiotis, Thessaly. The text requests protection for a house and its inhabitants, John and Georgia. The long, narrow strip, rounded at the top, was first folded over from top to bottom a number of times to produce make-shift ruling lines between which the scribe engraved his text. Some lines thus produced are uneven…
Triangular Formation of 153 Vowels
This lamella was found rolled up in a cylindrical, prismatic capsule sometime in 1900 or 1901 at Ephesus. The tablet had been folded over a number of times from top to bottom, and then once more vertically.
Jewish Liturgical Fragments in Greek
The gold charm was found in 1827 during the excavations of the house called Cefn Hendre (see map in Haverfield 1910:83; Wheeler 1923:14, fig. 1), located outside of the southernmost corner of the Roman fort at Segontium. The house, of a late date, was situated atop a Roman cremation cemetery that lay southeast of the fort along the southside of Llanbeblic Road. The cemetery yielded three burial urns in 1922 (1st cent. A.D.), as well as evidence o…
Votive Fragment
This fragment of gold foil represents one of many votive offerings discovered at the cave-sanctuary of Mount Ida, near Gortyn (Cook 1925:938), including a number of thin gold discs decorated with dots or rays; a gold decorative plaque of the 4sub-Minoan' era; and "an oblong plate of gold to which three draped female figures, with bucrania between them, are soldered; from the plate hangs a snake biting its tail" (Cook 1925:935; Halbherr 1888:752).…
Θωβαρραβαυ = “The Deposit is Good”
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Greek Magical Amulets
my attention and supplying some photographs; Bill Brashear in Berlin
Greek Magical Amulets
my attention and supplying some photographs; Bill Brashear in Berlin
Protection for Phaeinos from Demons
The British Museum acquired this piece in 1867, though nothing of the exact circumstances of discovery are recorded. Amphipolis, known among other things for its gold and silver mines, has also yielded many gravegoods from all periods; note D. Lazarides, art. "Amphipolis," in R. Stillwell, ed. The Princeton Encylopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, 1976), p. 51 f. It is likely that this piece was recovered from a gravesite.
A Liturgical Exorcistic Amulet
In 1924, Robinson dug up "three feet above the original pavement in the south portion of the colonnade behind the Augustus temple" a bronze tubular capsule (Robinson 1953:172). The silver tablet herewith described was found tightly rolled up inside the bronze tube. On the site, see David M. Robinson, "Roman Sculptures from Colonia Caesarea (Pisidian Antioch)," The Art Bulletin 9 (1926), pp. 5–69; figs. 2,3; further, on the excavations there, incl…
Amulet to Expel an Evil Spirit
According to Emil Hübner the piece was found in Rome in the 1830's and formed part of the private collection of the Principe de Anglona. The exact circumstances regarding the lamella's discovery are not known. No facsimile or photograph of the piece has ever been produced, and its present location is not known. The tablet was apparently intact.
A Xαριτήσιον
Wortmann first published this text in 1968 without photograph or drawing. Daniel in Daniel & Maltomini:1992 gives an improved reading and correctly redated the piece from the sixth century A.D. (Wortmann) to the second or third. Wortmann also misidentified the material as lead. A still newer reading, given below, differs in some details from that given in Daniel & Maltomini 1991:66. We also publish a full commentary and facsimile — one made from …
Aphrodite’s Name for Favor and Success
Wessely reports only that this gold amulet was found in Saloniki and had originally been rolled up. Palaeographically the script dates to the 2nd cent. A. D. The text preserves a spell for favor and love. The top six lines are separated from the bottom six by a straight-ruled line running across the width of the tablet.
Fragment of an Amulet
The lamella was found in a bronze bulla folded up tightly (three times vertically; once, horizontally), at the gravefield in Aranyhegy-árok. A coin of Trajan (98–117 A.D.) was found with it, suggesting a date of deposit in the second century A.D., presumably at the time when the city was still a municipium (124 A.D.), but not yet a colonia (194 A.D.). On the site, in general, see C. F. Giuliani, art. "Aquincum," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Clas…
‘King of Kings’ on an Amulet from Pontus
The tablet was first published with facsimile and text (but no commentary) by Pétridès 1905:88–90. Wünsch's (1909:24–32) edition betrays no apparent knowledge of Pétridès. The text is intact, though the photograph, herewith published, shows that a bit of the upper right has broken off since the publication of Pértridès' and Wünsch's editions. The piece was found in a grave, rolled up in a bronze tube (L. 5.2 cm)., at the Pontic city of Amisos, on…
Latin Fragment from a Romano-Celtic Temple
This fragment of a gold amulet was found around 1968 at the site of a Romano-Celtic temple, located north of Woodeaton, 4–5 miles from Oxford (see R. Goodchild & J. Kirk, "The Romano-Celtic Temple at Woodeaton," Oxoniensia 19 [1954], pp. 15–37). Excavations first confirmed in 1952 the existence of a small rectangular temple within a temenos enclosure. Researchers distinguish two temple periods: the first dating to the Roman's initial occupation o…
An Exorcism for a Young Girl
Preisendanz 1935:160 reports that this piece was found in 1897 in a child's grave on Mt. Sûr-Taš on the Sea of Azov (Crimea Peninsula). Pridik 1899:124 is the only previous edition of this lamella, The piece was found in a tiny cylindrical capsule with ringlets, a capsule that Pridik did not publish. For help with translating Pridik's Russian article, 1 would like to thank Frau Hanne Hagedorn (Tübingen).
House Amulet of John and Georgia
This amulet, acquired by the Greek Archaeological Society in 1878, was said to have been found in a grave at an undisclosed site in Phthiotis, Thessaly. The text requests protection for a house and its inhabitants, John and Georgia. The long, narrow strip, rounded at the top, was first folded over from top to bottom a number of times to produce make-shift ruling lines between which the scribe engraved his text. Some lines thus produced are uneven…
Triangular Formation of 153 Vowels
This lamella was found rolled up in a cylindrical, prismatic capsule sometime in 1900 or 1901 at Ephesus. The tablet had been folded over a number of times from top to bottom, and then once more vertically.
Jewish Liturgical Fragments in Greek
The gold charm was found in 1827 during the excavations of the house called Cefn Hendre (see map in Haverfield 1910:83; Wheeler 1923:14, fig. 1), located outside of the southernmost corner of the Roman fort at Segontium. The house, of a late date, was situated atop a Roman cremation cemetery that lay southeast of the fort along the southside of Llanbeblic Road. The cemetery yielded three burial urns in 1922 (1st cent. A.D.), as well as evidence o…
Votive Fragment
This fragment of gold foil represents one of many votive offerings discovered at the cave-sanctuary of Mount Ida, near Gortyn (Cook 1925:938), including a number of thin gold discs decorated with dots or rays; a gold decorative plaque of the 4sub-Minoan' era; and "an oblong plate of gold to which three draped female figures, with bucrania between them, are soldered; from the plate hangs a snake biting its tail" (Cook 1925:935; Halbherr 1888:752).…
Θωβαρραβαυ = “The Deposit is Good”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Greek Magical Amulets
my attention and supplying some photographs; Bill Brashear in Berlin
The “Horned Hunter” on a Lost Gnostic Gem
The noted Provencal antiquarian Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), perhaps the most dedicated of an international circle of acquaintances studying and collecting classical antiquities in the early seventeenth century, took an especially keen interest in ancient gems. With his friend, the painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), he planned an extensive publication on the subject that unfortunately never saw completion. Although Peiresc foc…
A Lex Sacra from Selinous
Magic in the Ancient World. Fritz Graf , Franklin Philip
Ancient Christian Magic
A Bronze »Rider Saint« Pendant with the Lord's Prayer
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
A Divining Gospel
Jeff W. Childers, Divining Gospel: Oracles of Interpretation in a Syriac Manuscript of John, Manuscripta Biblica 4 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), xi + 230 pp., ISBN 978–3-11–061721–4
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