Christian textual amulet on a lead sheet from Rękawczyn in Greater Poland Province
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00123390" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123390 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/2498/2871" target="_blank" >https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/2498/2871</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2498" target="_blank" >10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2498</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Christian textual amulet on a lead sheet from Rękawczyn in Greater Poland Province
Original language description
The subject of this article is the discovery of a lead amulet with an engraved Latin inscription. It was found in Rękawczyn (the eastern part of Greater Poland) in 2018 during research conducted by the District Museum in Konin. This artefact is the first and so far only find of its kind in the Polish context. It was identified by comparing it to similar finds from Germany and Bohemia from the 11th–13th centuries that bear apotropaic Latin inscriptions. This paper presents the circumstances and overall context of the find as well as a reconstruction of the Latin text. The text on the amulet consists of 24 lines (damaged especially on the inner part), which are barely legible and which contain a long quotation from the Gospel of John followed by an apotropaic formula with magical words. The reconstruction of the text is accompanied by a tentative interpretation and commentary. The palaeographical analysis of the script (Gothic minuscule) dated the amulet to the second half of the 14th century. The study presents the amulet in the wider context of similar inscriptions of European origin.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60202 - Specific languages
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sprawozdania archeologiczne
ISSN
0081-3834
e-ISSN
2719-647X
Volume of the periodical
73
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
339-364
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85124548365