Around 165 magical gold, silver, tin, and copper lamella are known from the archaeological record. The majority of them was inscribed with a spell for protection or healing. “Lamella” is the term used for thin metal tablets or leaves. These tablets were commonly rolled up and worn in a small case around the neck.
This is the text engraved in the lamella:
[Magic Signs] Psnebennou, Phnebennyth, similarly: Phnebennouth: As rock with rock, as philosophers with philosophers, as water with waters: As these written things do not feel pain, so also may NN not [feel pain]”
Written inside the tabula ansata, which is the term for the rectangular frame with triangles to the right and left below the centre of the lamella: Sabaôth Iaôth
There are more Greek letters to both sides of the tabula ansata and below it but so far it hasn’t been possible to make any sense of them.
Silver Lamella, 3rd century, ca. 4.5 × 3.4 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, 80.AM.56, Public Domain
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