Abstract
The ancient Greek and Roman Lapidaries are significant in the context of the subject of the Zaragoza conference in exemplifying the complex relationships between Greek and Latin texts on magical themes. The Lapidaries prescribes three images in all to be engraved on such amulets, those of Poseidon/Neptune, Amphitrite and a Medusa-head. Perhaps the most important contribution of the Nautical Lapidary is the insight it provides into the tacit rules informing the practice of preparing amulets, rules which taken together constitute the implicit rationality of the praxis. At least in the Lapidaries, the relation between the purpose of the amulet and choice of a particular divine image is straightforward enough.Keywords: amulets; ancient Greek; Roman Lapidaries
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