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62 | Alisha Meininghaus www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 45–65 Fig. 4b: Printer: Michael Ben-Zalman Hanau (?), 027.011.0043, print with woodcut, 17.5 x 17 cm, 1720s (?), Gross Family Collection. (© William Gross) dent in their depiction on another amulet type from Sulzbach or Fürth, which shows them as one of the central pictorial elements (fig. 5). On this type, the depicted figures can be clearly identified as Adam and Eve through the use of captions with their names. So, it is possible that in the case of the amulets with the naked Virgo and Sagittarius, the woodcuts provide a second association, with Adam and Eve. This thesis is supported by the observation that there is also an amulet that, matching the naked Virgo with a plant in her hand, shows a naked man with a flower (fig. 4b). While the woman with the plant can be unambiguously recognized as a common