A unique magical inscription from Panticapaeum and the unknown enemies

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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2019.04.1902

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inscription, magical, Panticapaeum, anonymous

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The present article studies a magical inscription from the ancient necropolis of Panticapaeum that contains the term ανώνυμος seventeen times along with some letters without obvious meaning, making observations on the reading of the text and annotations about the letters without meaning and offering a new proposal concerning its purpose.

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2019-06-30

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Chronopoulou, E. (2019). A unique magical inscription from Panticapaeum and the unknown enemies. Emerita, 87(1), 73–82. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2019.04.1902

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