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Simone Michel, Bunte Steine - Dunkle Bilder „Magische Gemmen“
Catalogue for the touring exhibition „Bunte Steine – Dunkle
Bilder“ with gems from the collections of the Museum für
Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel and the private collection W.
Skoluda.
The images carved in stone get described and interpreted, as witnesses
for popular antique religion containing egyptian and syncretistic
gods and godesses. Like charms the gems were used as medicine, protection
against illness and demons as well as for love spells.
2001. 142 S. 276
Abb.
ISBN 3-930609-29-0
EUR 25,-
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