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Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 102
2002 IFAO
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Appuis-tête à inscription magique et apotropaïa.

During a systematic inventory of headrests carried out for a PhD thesis, two atypical artefacts stood out from the whole corpus. Both contain an almost identical magic -inscription, mentioning protective deities.

The interest of this new research lies in the confrontation with another type of artefact: the apotropaia. The comparative study sketched here, from the study of the inscriptions and the iconography, is of use as an introduction to new investigations in touch with the function of headrests and with that of apotropaia. Even if their function is not common, these two types of objects share significant resemblances and identical inscriptions.