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Cover illustration: Dice from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, Roman period. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gift of Egyptian Exploration Fund, 1897. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547955. Image in the public domain (CC0 1.0 Universal).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Luijendijk, AnneMarie, editor; Klingshirn, William E., editor
Title: My lots are in thy hands : sortilege and its practitioners in late antiquity / edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk, William E. Klingshirn.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018037417 (print) | LCCN 2018038496 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004385030 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004384101 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Choice by lot—History—To 1500. | Civilization, Ancient. | Divination in the Bible.
Classification: LCC BF1779.L6 (ebook) | LCC BF1779.L6 M9 2018 (print) | DDC 133.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018037417
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ISSN 0927-7633
ISBN 978-90-04-38410-1 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-38503-0 (e-book)
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