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‘Atiqot 80 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Magical Amulet from the Cemetery on Sallah ed-Din Street, Jerusalem
(pp. 127–132)
Gabriel Mazor
Keywords: glyptics, Aelia Capitolina, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Roman colonia, iconography, ethnicity, pagans
A magical amulet, discovered in a burial cave within the Roman-period cemetery on Sallah ed-Din Street, is made from cobalt glass and is of fair workmanship. The amulet is engraved on the obverse with the image of Artemis/Diana in a frontal hunting posture, and on the reverse, with Greek letters. This finding supports the assumption that the cave may have served the family of a Roman veteran of the Tenth Legion, who resided in Aelia Capitolina sometime during the second–third centuries CE.