My lots are in thy hands : : sortilege and its practitioners in late antiquity / / edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk, William E. Klingshirn with the assistance of Lance Jenott.

Sortilege—the making of decisions by casting lots—was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity , AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Kl...

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Superior document:Religions in the Graeco-Roman World ; Volume 188
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
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Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; Volume 188.
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