This bronze amulet was created to protect its owner against enemies and a specific evil demon. To create and shape the power of the artefact, Egyptian, Christian, and Jewish elements were combined and complemented by magic signs. The combination of this iconography, the inscriptions, and the symbolism is unique.

In this video I explain the images, inscriptions, and the symbolism, describe the unnamed female demon, quote from the "Testament of Solomon", and provide a new interpretation of its purpose and meaning.

The amulet is kept in the British Museum London, inventory number 1938,1010.1.
Link to the artefact: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...

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References:
A. A. Barb, Three Elusive Amulets, in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 27 (1964), 1-22.
Link: www.jstor.org/stable/750509
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A. A. Barb, Antaura, in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29 (1966), pp. 1-23.
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/750706

Heta Björklund, Protecting Against Child-Killing Demons - Uterus Amulets in the Late Antique and Byzantine Magical World, 2017.
Link: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/1013...

F. C. Conybeare, Testament of Solomon, 1898.
Link: https://archive.org/details/Cony1899J...

J. F. Quack, The so-called Pantheos. On polymorphic deities in late-egyptian religion, in: H. Györi (ed.), Aegyptus et Pannonia III. Acta Symposii Anno 2004. Budapest 2006, pp. 175-190.
Link: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pr...

Sarah L. Schwarz, Reconsidering the Testament of Solomon, in: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha, Vol 16.3 (2007), pp. 203-237.
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...

J. Spier, Medieval Byzantine Magical Amulets and Their Tradition, in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 56 (1993), pp. 25-62.
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/751363

Concerning the Hexagram and the Star of David, see the chapters "The Hexagram and Hebraic Sacred Science", "Hexagram Construction and the Zoharic Account of Creation", and "The Hexagram of Creation: Recovering the Esoteric Keys to Genesis" in: Leonora Leet, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sacred Science (1999), 210-217 and 218-22, 222-232.