Magical gem: Bes-Pantheos
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1072
ID-Number:
US-AA-SCL_Bonner 33
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library
Inventory:
SCL-Bonner 33
References:
Smith–Hutton 1908, no. nr. 248; Bonner, SMA D. 260; Michel, DMG, no. 41.3_1
Former Collections:
Bonner, Campbell (1876 Nashville – 1954 Ann Arbor); Cook, Wyndham Francis (1860–1905)
Material:
jasper, yellow
Dimensions:
12 x 9 x 3 mm
Iconography:
modius; pedestal; staff, snake entwined; figure, winged; Pantheos; Bes, face of; scepter, unspecified
A: Winged Bes-Pantheos standing to front on a low pedestal, head crowned with the modius, hands holding two tall scepters; a snake coils round the upper part of the one held by the right hand. Inscribed around the edge, beginning at bottom left: ρησ|ιχθων → ῥηξίχθων. 'Cleaver of earth'.
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1072
Images
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide260.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1072
Images
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide260.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
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CBd-1072. 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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