Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part 1: Study and Commentary
1 Introduction & Status Quaestionis
?1.1?From the Beginnings to the End of the Belle Epoque (1685-1914)
?1.2?Between the Two World Wars (1914-1945)
?1.3?After the War (1945-2000)
?1.4?The New Millennium (2000-2020)
2 Protagonists
?2.1?Solomon, Master of Demons
?2.2?Saint Sisinnius and the Child-Killing Demon
?2.3?The Holy Rider: Retrospect and Prospect
3 Solomonic Magic in Practice
?3.1?Magical Recipes and Handbooks
?3.2?Solomon in Greek Magical Epigraphy
?3.3?Solomon in Latin Magical Epigraphy
?3.4?Solomon in Semitic Magical Epigraphy
4 Introducing the Corpus: Provenance, Dating, and Context
?4.1?Archaeological Context and Provenance
?4.2?Dating
?4.3?Workshops, Vendors, Wearers, and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
5 Magical Gems
?5.1?Introduction
?5.2?Materiality
?5.3?Aniconic Gems
?5.4?Holy Rider Prototype
?5.5?Iconographic Variations and Additions
?5.6?Textual Variations and Additions
?5.7?Beyond the Prototype
6 Pendants
?6.1?Introduction
?6.2?Materiality
?6.3?Holy Rider Prototype
?6.4?Biblical Incipits
?6.5?Iao Sabaoth and the Angels
?6.6?The Much-Suffering Eye
?6.7?Thirsty Bird
?6.8?Animals, Genitals, and Apollonius of Tyana
?6.9?Crucifixion
?6.10?Holy Rider Pendants with Less Common Variations
?6.11?Singular Designs
?6.12?Whipping the Demon
7 Medallions
?7.1?Introduction
?7.2?Materiality
?7.3?Iconography
?7.4?Inscriptions
?7.5?Singular Designs with the Rider
?7.6?Singular Designs without the Rider
?7.7?South Italian Group
?7.8?The Embossed Group
8 Miscellanea and Middle Byzantine Revival
?8.1?Rings
?8.2?Armbands
?8.3?Pilgrim Tokens, Stamps, Buttons and Amulets in Stone and Bone
?8.4?Middle Byzantine Revival
Part 2: Corpus
? Solomonica Magica (SoMa)
Bibliography
??Editions
??Exhibition and Auction Catalogues
??Studies
Index