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Temporary closure of the Museum

The Museum is temporarily closed to the public until 21 November 2025 inclusive as the frames are replaced. Find out more on our page devoted to this major project.

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Project « Phoinix: Platform for Studying Ancient Amuletic Jewellery »

Phoinix is an international research platform designed to compile a comprehensive corpus of ancient and post-antique gems and amulets preserved in museums and private collections worldwide. It presents these objects through a unified system of archaeological, museological, philological, and religious-historical descriptions.

The platform supports advanced data mining across multiple criteria and is open to collaborative research initiatives, independent content development, and the online publication of scholarly results. Building upon the foundation of the Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database (CBd) - whose numbering system it continues - Phoinix operates as an independent and continuously evolving resource. It is coordinated by the Palladion Association for the Study of Classical Antiquity in Budapest.

Its scope extends beyond that of the CBd, incorporating a wider range of object types thanks to the contribution of numerous international partners. These include, notably, Mithraic amulets as well as gems and jewellery related to the god Sarapis, which are integrated into the platform through a collaboration with the Royal Museum of Mariemont.

This research project is leaded by Árpád M. Nagy (University of Pécs, Palladion).

 

Research projects:

Material gestures, practices and cultures

Researcher

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