Bulla — Amulet Atlas A locket on a neckchain: a round hollow pouch with something shut inside it, usually a phallus. What it was made of tracked the family's money — gold or gold foil at the top, lead, leather or cloth further down. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bulla/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Tupilaq — Amulet Atlas Two different things share this name, and a reader should hold them apart. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tupilaq/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Burying — Amulet Atlas Putting a charm in the ground and leaving it. Under a hearth, at the far corner of a property, in the threshold, in a well, in a wall. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/burying/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Buying one in a market — Amulet Atlas Money changes hands and an object becomes yours. It is the ordinary route to a charm almost everywhere — a tray in a lane, a counter inside a temple gate, an aisle at the back of a municipal market, a stall in a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/buying-in-a-market/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 46K
Insa-dong — Amulet Atlas A neighbourhood of Jongno District, Seoul, 12.7 hectares of galleries, antique shops, paper and brush shops and tea houses along Insadong-gil and the alleys off it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/insadong/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 44K
Feeding the charm — Amulet Atlas Giving the object something to consume. Liquor poured on a cloth bag, a lit cigarette in a plaster figure's mouth, rice and salt and water set out in front of a paper talisman, a nail driven into a carved figure… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/feeding-the-charm/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Petrie's amulet plates — Amulet Atlas Plates of small Egyptian amulets, photographed in rows against a plain ground, printed at the back of a slim book: W. M. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/petrie-amulet-plates/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Cloth — Amulet Atlas Woven fibre doing three different jobs: a bag that holds a charm, a garment that is one, and a strip that records how many people worked on it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/cloth/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 37K
The Pitt Rivers Museum — Amulet Atlas Oxford museum of archaeology and anthropology, founded in 1884 on Augustus Pitt Rivers' gift of about 22,000 objects and now holding more than 600,000. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/org/pitt-rivers-museum/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
The phallus — Amulet Atlas An erect phallus, modelled in bronze, bone or wood and worn, hung or fixed. Roman versions are frequently winged, and turn up as pendants, finger rings, relief carvings, lamps and wind chimes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/phallic-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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