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Robert Daniel and Franco Maltomini, eds., Supplementum Magicum, 2 vols. (Oplanden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990–1992), pp. 47–48, 1.27.

Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1987), p. 45.

The copper case appears to have been incised (not an uncommon practice), but these incisions could not be deciphered.

Recent archaeological excavations have been conducted at Sepphoris by teams from the University of South Florida, Duke University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. The amulets discussed in this article were found by the team from the University of South Florida, under the direction of Professor James F. Strange.

F. H. Pairault-Massa, “Talamone,” I Galli e l’Italia (Rome, 1978), pp. 207–20.

Stephen Dyson, The Creation of the Roman Frontier (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985), p. 30.

Polybius 2.28.2–8.

Both William Metcalf and Paolo Visonà have made this suggestion. They based their conclusion on drawings and photographs alone, however, so it remains tentative. I thank them both for lending their expertise.

As did the army of Augustus during the siege of Perugia in 41–40 B.C.: J.P. Hallett, “Perusine Glandes and the Changing Image of Augustus,” American Journal of Ancient History 2 (1977), pp. 151–171.

For a good bibliography of these weapons, see Clive Foss, “A Bullet of Tissaphernes,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 95 (1975), pp. 25–30.