Early Christian numismatics, and other antiquarian tracts (1873)
King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell & Daldy · leaf 257
ng of thekind yet survives in the East: the Persians manageto scare away cockroaches by writing up the name ofthe cockroach king, Kabikaj, in the places infested byhis subjects. In the University Library at Cambridgemay be seen a Persian MS. thus defended againsttheir attacks by this venerated… … Ceralma of Jade. To face page 223. ( 223 ) ON A CEKAUNIA OF JADE CONVEKTED INTO AGNOSTIC TALISMAN. Few relics of antiquity combine in one so manyand so widely differing points of interest, with respectto the material, the strangely dissimilar uses to whichthe same object has been applied in two…
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