Author: ZWIERLEIN-DIEHL, Erika,
Title: Magische Amulette und andere Gemmen des Instituts für Altertumskunde der Universität zu Köln. Photographiert von I. Luckert.
Description: Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1992. 140,32p. ills.(line drawings and B&W photographs). Sewn. With author's intention on free endpaper. Series: Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sonderreihe Papyrologica Coloniensia, Vol. XX. (Rare). 'Z.-D.?s knowledge and command of ancient gemology and modern gemmological publications is unimpugnably and unassailably evident on every page (?). The reader is likewise grateful for the many references to parallel pieces in widely scattered collections, the quoting of pertinent passages from the ancient lapidarists, ancient authors and the magical papyri.? WILLIAM M. BRASHEAR in Gnomon, 1996, p.450). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann.

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