The paper focuses on one very unusual magical object originating from the territory of the Bosporan kingdom: an agate stone amulet with a rather extensive inscription found in the vicinity of ancient Gorgippia. The author summarizes the history of scholarly discussion on the subject and analyses Chr. Faraone’s “magical handbook” hypothesis putting forward some arguments against it. The paper not only revisits the reading of the text, but treats the artefact as a unity of the material object and the inscription there upon.

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重访阿纳帕地区的球形玛瑙宝石

本文着眼于源自博斯普兰王国领土的一个非常不寻常的魔法物体：玛瑙石护身符，在远古的戈尔吉皮亚附近发现有相当广泛的铭文。作者总结了关于该学科的学术讨论的历史并分析了Chr。Faraone的“魔术手册”假设提出了一些反对它的论点。该论文不仅重新审视了文本的阅读，而且将人工制品视为实物和其上的铭文的统一体。