Magical gem: Baboon (A) Greek inscription (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1071
ID-Number:
US-AA-SCL_Bonner 32
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library
Inventory:
SCL-Bonner 32
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 246; Michel, DMG, no. 36.1.a_7
Former Collections:
Bonner, Campbell (1876 Nashville – 1954 Ann Arbor)
Material:
jasper, yellow
Dimensions:
17 x 11 x 3 mm
Iconography:
animal: cynocephalus; gesture, greeting; uraeus; gesture, ithyphallic; crown, double feathers?
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified
A: Ithyphallic baboon standing to right, with paws raised in greeting, head crowned with what looks like the double feather crown (Bonner: atef). In front of the feet, a cobra erect on its tail.
B: Inscribed in two lines in mirror writing: ηνομ|ορω. For an interpretation of the vox, see Bonner, SMA, 197.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1071
Images
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide246.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/246rev.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of B in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
B: Inscribed in two lines in mirror writing: ηνομ|ορω. For an interpretation of the vox, see Bonner, SMA, 197.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1071
Images
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide246.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/246rev.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of B in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
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CBd-1071. The Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database (2010-), developed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, editor-in-chief: Á. M. Nagy.
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