Bede

The latest scoop on the amulet.

I've checked the 1952 edition of Guthrie which has an additional note on page 278 relating to the gem (my commentary in square brackets):

"In his review of this book [Orpheus and Greek Religion] in Gnomon (1935, p 476), [Otto] Kern [unfeasibly esteemed German expert on Orpheus] recants and expresses himself convinced by the expert opinion of Reil and Zahn [more distinguished Germans] that the gem is a forgery."

I looked up the review in Gnomon but it is in German so I can't make anything of it. Still, the gem has been branded a forgery by noted experts. Lucky for Freke and Gandy that they don't think it important to their thesis, but you still have to ask what it was doing on the front cover of their book. At least we now know why they didn't give a reference to where the picture came from.

Yours

Bede

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GakuseiDon

That does tie the loose ends together, doesn't it. Thanks, Bede, very interesting!