Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and Apotropaic Figurine Worlds of Neo-Assyria

Archaeologies of Materiality

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 18-45

  Nakamura, Carolyn ^a  

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Author keywords

Apotropaic figurine; Magical figures; Magical object; Metaphysics of magic; Neo assyria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889347534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774052.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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