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757Miracle inscriptions  

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Inscriptions recording accounts of patients, who had been treated and wanted to communicate their "miraculous" healing by divine intervention. These texts were engraved on a small wooden tablet or a stone stele, depending on the wealth and status of the treated person.

Source

  • Guarducci 2008
  • Κουμανούδης & Ματθαίου 1986

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Chrysovitsanos Gerasimos (AA)

Notation

  • 757

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/757

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