Amulet AtlasPeople

1827 CE – 1900 CE

English soldier and archaeologist, 1827–1900, who arranged objects by what they are for rather than by where they came from.

1852 CE – 1933 CE

English folklorist, July 1852 – 1933, who collected charms off London streets while working as a chief cashier at a bank in the City.

1830 CE – 1907 CE

English philologist and antiquary, 1830–1907, of Wellington in Somerset.

1870 CE – 1926 CE

German ophthalmologist and independent scholar, 1870–1926, who wrote the largest survey of the evil eye anybody has attempted.

1876 CE – 1955 CE

American collector and art historian, 1876–1955, who bought amulets in vast numbers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East and then wrote about them.

1857 CE – 1934 CE

English Egyptologist and Orientalist, 1857–1934, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924.

1853 CE – 1942 CE

English Egyptologist, 1853–1942, who dug Egypt for half a century and sorted what came out of it.

1934 CE – 2005 CE

American folklorist, 1934–2005, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley for forty-two years.

1876 CE – 1954 CE

American classicist, 1876–1954, of the University of Michigan, who wrote the book that made carved magical gems a subject with a method.

1955 CE to now

American classicist, born 1955, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics at the University of Chicago.

1928 CE – 2011 CE

Israeli epigrapher and palaeographer, 1928–2011, who read the writing on the amulets.

1933 CE – 2021 CE

Israeli Iranist and philologist, 1933–2021, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.