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Magical gem: Youth standing on stele (A) christogram (B)
CBd-Number:
CBd-1112
ID-Number:
US-NY-MMA-GRA_10.130.1395
Collection:
US_New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Inventory:
10.130.1395
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 154; Michel, DMG, no. 55.1.a_3
Material:
haematite (black)
Dimensions:
18 x 14 x 3 mm
Dating:
2nd c. AD (MM Coll. website)
Iconography:
figure, male; christogram; stele; solar disk?; moon, crescent?; gesture, lying; gesture, arms tied

A: Nude youth standing nude, to right, with hands bound together in front, atop a gabled stele lying on its side. Behind him: a vertical line of characteres. On the stele: meaningless combination of Greek letters, and the signs of sun and moon - cryptography?
B: Christogram.

Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1112
The Metropolitan Museum Collections website on CBd-1112
 

Last modified: 2019-11-04 21:00:01
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CBd-1112. The Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database (2010-), developed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, editor-in-chief: Á. M. Nagy. Retrieved from: cbd.mfab.hu/cbd/1112 on 02-11-2024.

Image-ID 4101

Credits The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910 (10.130.1395)

Rights Images © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image-ID 4102

Credits The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910 (10.130.1395)

Rights Images © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Credits The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910 (10.130.1395)

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Image-ID 4104

Credits The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910 (10.130.1395)

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Credits From Bonner, SMA

Rights © New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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