Biblical Archaeology Review
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Endnote 5 - Rare Magic Inscription on Human Skull
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Since I had written my doctoral dissertation on the magic incantation bowls in Moussaieff’s collection, it was only natural that he should make this ancient skull available to me for study and publication. Dan Levene, “Calvariae Magicae: The Berlin, Philadelphia and Moussaieff Skulls,” Orientalia 75, no. 4 (2006), pp. 359–379.
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See C. Kraeling, The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Final Report VIII, part 1: The Synagogue (New Haven, CT: KTAV Publishing House, 1956), pp. 223–225; P.C. Finney, “Orpheus-David: A Connection in Iconography between Greco-Roman Judaism and Early Christianity?” Journal of Jewish Art 5, pp. 11–13; Charles Murray, “Rebirth and Afterlife: A Study of the Transmutation of Some Pagan Imagery in Early Christian Art,” British Archaeological Reports, International Series 100 (1981), pp. 115–121.
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For example, H. Stern, “The Orpheus in the Synagogue of Dura-Europos,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21 (1958), pp. 1–6; E.R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, vol. 9 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1964), pp. 89–104; M. Avi-Yonah, “Goodenough’s Evaluation of the Dura Paintings: A Critique,” in J. Gutmann, ed., The Dura-Europos Synagogue: A Re-evaluation (1932–1972) (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1973), pp. 117–135, esp. p. 119.
