The Filatterio Capitolino, The Greek-Jewish foil preserved in The Musei Capitolini: A new contribution concerning its discovery site

This paper is focused on the context of an excavation where the Capitoline Philactery was found. It is a silver-inscribed foil, in the upper part we read a short Greek text, while in the lower one the text is written in Hebraic. The foil could protect from malaria. It was found in Rome in the Esquil...

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Published in:Acta antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 2021-11, Vol.60 (3-4), p.445-467
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Language:English
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Summary:This paper is focused on the context of an excavation where the Capitoline Philactery was found. It is a silver-inscribed foil, in the upper part we read a short Greek text, while in the lower one the text is written in Hebraic. The foil could protect from malaria. It was found in Rome in the Esquilino quarter in 1874 inside a Mithraeum, that took place in the 3th–4th century within an area of Imperial property. To the same place converged the cult of salutary divinities as well and in the 4th–5th century some sacred artifacts were buried together before the abandonment of the Mithraeum itself, between them there was the Capitoline Philactery.
ISSN:0044-5975
1588-2543
DOI:10.1556/068.2020.00032