3-037-340 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Tablet (Lamella) with an Incantation against Epilepsy, 3rd century A.D. Additional Info: A thin rectangular gold sheet inscribed on one side with a personal incantation against epilepsy (about thirty lines of Greek text, voces magicae and magical ‘characters’). It is creased from once having been rolled up. Notable are its distinctly Jewish (and possibly Christian) character, its use of different terms for epilepsy and the occurence of the "Gnostic" light-Aeon, Eleleth (line 30). It invokes the Jewish god under a variety of names as well as the angels and combines them with magic names and characters.