Amulet case ca. mid-1st millennium A.D. Sasanian A group of ten amulet cases (32.150.95, 32.150.96, 32.150.97, 32.150.98, 32.150.99, 32.150.100, 32.150.101, 32.150.102, 32.150.103, 32.150.104) were found inside a plain unglazed jar (32.150.94). The cases are made from sheet copper rolled into cylinders and the ends stopped with bitumen. Although only one fragment of papyrus was found, the texts probably contained exorcisms or blessings. The city of Ctesiphon was located on the east bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles (32 km) south of modern Baghdad in Iraq. It flourished for more than 800 years as the capital of the Parthians and the Sasanians, the last two dynasties to rule the ancient Near East before the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Systematic excavations in the Ctesiphon area were undertaken by an expedition in 1928-29 sponsored by the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft). The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, undertook a joi