The “Apocryphal” Inscription from Mangup, Crimea, and Rituals of “Exposing the Thief”: Magic and Law from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

The discovery of a Byzantine bread stamp inscribed with the text of Ps 29:8 in the ruins of Mangup Basilica in Crimea allows the authors of this article to revise the entire tradition of the Byzantine magical and folk “recipes” for revealing a thief; it is this context in which this verse is used in...

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Main Authors: Andrey Yu. Vinogradov, Mikhail S. Zheltov
Format: Article
Language:Bulgarian
Published: Moscow State University of Education 2015-08-01
Series:Slovene
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Online Access:http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/72