A Gnostic Amulet with an Aramaic Inscription

THE SUBJECT of this paper was brought to my attention in the following manner. For some time past Professor Campbell Bonner has been engaged in a study of the so-called gnostic gems in American collections, partly to determine certain special problems, and partly with a view to making a census or catalogue of this class of stones, so far as they are represented in this country. In the course of this work Mr. Bonner was able to avail himself of the generous courtesy of Mr. Edward T. Newell of New York, who gave him every facility for the study of his own collection; and detailed descriptions of the stones have now been prepared. Upon one of Mr. Newell's stones there is an inscription in Greek letters which Mr. Bonner suspected to be really in the Hebrew language. He referred the words to me for study, and the following discussion is the result. The stone is a dark red jasper 18 x 14 mm. in size, and has this inscription in the longer dimension of the stone

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