Ancient Jewish Lead Pendant Amulet with Aramaic Inscription

Very Rare Pendant Amulet with Inscription

Item: Jewish Lead Pendant Amulet

Content: 8 lines of magical Aramaic inscription

Dimensions: 52 x 31 mm

Date: 3rd Century AD to 5th Century AD

Origin: Israel

Script: Aramaic script

Material: Lead

Design: Rectangular lead pendant with perforated trapezoidal handle with an Aramaic inscription written on one side.

Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language that belongs to the Northwest line of Semitic languages. Known as early as the 9th Century B.C. Eventually, Aramiac was used extensively throughout the Ancient Near East as the common tongue of merchants and governments. Many important books of the Old and New Testament were composed in Aramaic, and the language is popularly believed to be the native tongue of Jesus. From the late 5th Century A.D. onwards, Aramaic supplanted Hebrew as the daily language of the Jews. For instance, the Gemara, the second division of the Talmud, was written entirely in Aramaic.