Bonner, SMA, 328.
Bonner, SMA – PDF, 328.Besas, 108
Bird (ostrich or wader) attacking a reptile (snake, scorpion, or centipede), 212-213; probably a symbol of good conquering evil, 214; seven birds on fever amulet, 67
Bird-headed (hawk-headed ?) god, 129-130
Birth, sculpture representing, 93, n. 64
Birth amulets, 92-93
Birth chair, 92-94
Bridle bit (?), 114
Brimo, name of Persephone or Hecate, invoked in magic, 104, 168, 196
Bronze medals as amulets, 219-220
Bronze pendants, used as amulets in Palestine and Syria, 9, 211-218; eye-shaped specimens, 218
Buto, 175
Byblos, Chnoubis amulet from, 56
Calathus, 249
Candlestick, seven-branched, 29
Canopic jars, with heads of Osiris and Isis, 179
"Canopus" types, probably forgeries, 147
Casts, preferred to impressions in reproducing magi-cal amulets, 250
Celts, see Stone axes
Characters, magical, 12, 194-195; treated as divine, 195, 215
Charchnoumis, name of decan, 55
Charioteers, their rivalries, 114
Cherubim, 29
Chnoubis, 10, 25, 53; design for stomach amulets, 54-60; human-headed, 54, 58, 79, 89, 132, 141; taking place of Harpocrates with animal triads, 142; solar associations, 154; as Agathodaimon (?), 162; special symbol for, 52, 58, 59, 162
Chnoumis, Chnoumos, Chnouphos, names of decans, 54-55
Chnum, Chnum-Amon, 24, 25, 48, 143
Cholchnoubis, 55
Chrachnoubis, 55
Christ, as bust at top of cross, 218; on Byzantine medallion, 222
Cock a sacred bird in Persia, 125; its prophylactic power, 126; connection with the sun, 127
Cock-headed anguipede, 29, 33, 34, 35; on reverse of Mithraic amulet, 34; discussed at length, 123-135; type described, 123-124; its solar connection, 127, 132; its supposed Gnostic character, 127, 133-135; an aberrant type, 239
Coin type used as design for amulets, 39, 65-66, 74, 244
Colic, amulets for, 62-66
Colors of gems suggest magical powers, 3
"Consecration" of amulets, 14-17
Consecration of divine images, 15-17
Coptic words, 26, 59, 200, 230
Cords as amulets, 3
Crypto-Christian ( ?) designs, 12, 224-225
Curse tablets, 11, 27; so-called Sethian, 114
Cynocephalus, 250; see Baboon
Daniel with lions, 222
Demeter, 24, 40
Demons, amulets to protect from, 95-96
Digestive amulets, 51-62; non-specialized types marked as digestive by inscriptions, 61-62; charm for stomach ailment on bronze pendant, 217-218
Dionysus, 41
Dipsas, thirst-snake, 88
Druj, Persian spirit of falsehood, 210
Eagle, 49, 64-66
Egyptian dynastic amulets, 8
Egyptian influence dominant in amulets of Roman period, 7, 8
Egyptian words on amulets, 188
Envy, meaning the envious glance (evil eye), amulet protecting from, 96-97; Envy personified repre-sented on amulet, 97
Ephesia grammata, 5
Ereschigal (Ereshkigal), Babylonian goddess of underworld, 30, 86, 197
Eros, 35, 40, 43, 115; on love amulet, 118, 120; threatened by Psyche, 121; Harpocrates assimilated to, 197
Evil eye, 77, 96-99; demon of, 97; prophylactic design against, 97-99; on a grave stele, 99; common on bronze pendants from Syria and Palestine, 99, 211; technical name of this design, 97, 211
Eye, diseases of, 69-71
Fetichism, 2
Fever, amulet for, 67-68
Fragmentary stories, used in incantations, 216-217
Frog, significance in Egyptian symbolism, 243; winged frog, 205
Fusiform amulets, 241
George, Saint, 125, 220
Glossolalia, "speaking with tongues," 190
Gnosis, 1, 45
Gnostic, as a term for magical amulets, 1, 45
"God comprehending all gods," 156, 159
God with "standard" (post with animal heads each side) in place of human head, 159; 243 (?)
Goose, with Harpocrates, 144
Gorgon's head, apotropaic, 125, 241; similar design in uterine amulets, 90-91, 92
Gout, amulet for, 75-76
Greek influence in amulets, 39-44
Gyllo or Gyllou, 210
Hades, 24, 41
Hand, clenched, apotropaic, 243
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