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Ethiopian leather amulettes - 1

Posted by Eva Baby on December 26, 2012 at 1:59pm
These are 3 old leather amulettes from North Ethiopia, (they contain written pieces on either goat leather or pergament, either verses from the Bible, or magic verses for protection). An example how such scripts may look like is given below).
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  • Eva Baby December 26, 2012 at 2:07pm

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    the sizes vary between 4x4 and 8 x 2 cm. Similar amulettes have been opened and its inside rolls photographed (I have not opened mine and will not. But I include photos of the seller of such text rolls above, some contain drawings, others only text, they all are either verses from the Bible or magic verses for protection, written in Ge-ez.

  • Chantal December 26, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Great. We dont often see these on the blog.and particularly the contents.always wondered what it looked like. Thanks for posting that. They look quite old and well used.......

  • Toya December 26, 2012 at 9:08pm

    Thank you for showing a sample of the contents. Very informative.

  • Akkie December 26, 2012 at 10:09pm
    Agree with Toya and Chantal. Thank you
  • Eva Baby December 26, 2012 at 10:50pm

    @Thank you, I also find the contents very impressive, even those without drawings

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