The Orphic Tablet Pendant Solid Gold the sole of a small

the sole of a small shoe

rich rhodolite garnet is embraced by a sinuous gold setting

She put her husband back together and breathed life into him

As the muse of the written word

fevers and hexes

The Orphic Tablet Pendant Solid Gold the sole of a smallIn the ancient world, thin sheets of gold were inscribed with instructions for navigating the afterlife and tucked into linen shrouds. A map for the soul; a golden key. This pendant is based on the Petelia Gold Tablet, a 3rd to 2nd century BCE Orphic inscription from southern Italy, unearthed in the 1830s. Its ancient Greek text guides the dead away from the waters of forgetfulness and toward the spring of Mnemosyne: Memory. Cast in solid gold or gold