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- Title
Gold Has Many Uses.
- Authors
Graf, Fritz
- Abstract
In this paper, I discuss a group of gold tablets from graves in Judaea-Palaestina from about 200 CE. I connect the text in these tablets with a well known funerary acclamation that originated in the East and was brought to the Latin West by immigrants and argue, against earlier scholars, that these tablets mark the very home of this acclamation and express a peculiar eschatology. I end with remarks on the multiple uses of inscribed gold tablets in ancient religions.
- Subjects
JUDAEA (Region); TOMBS; PALESTINIAN history; TABLETS (Paleography); SEPULCHRAL monuments; POLYGLOT texts, selections, quotations, etc.; INSCRIPTIONS; HISTORY
- Publication
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
1436-3038
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/arege-2015-0002