Amulet(?) gem in a post-antique ring: Mars with globe
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1222
ID-Number:
CZ-Brno, Moravian Gallery in Brno_24322
Collection:
CZ_Brno, Moravian Gallery
Inventory:
24322
Former Collections:
Collalto, Edvard
Material:
carnelian (colour unspecified)
Dimensions:
15 x 11 mm
Iconography:
Ares; weapon: helmet; clothing: mantle; globus?
A: Mars, standing in profile, wearing helmet and mantle, his right hand raised and holding a globe(?). Around, scattered in the free field, Greek letters.
B: Hidden.
Probably post-antique. For the image of Ares in arms on amulets, see Damigeron - Evax, s.v. Sardio; ibidem XXVIII, s.v. Lapis chalcedonius (Halleux - Schamp 1985, 233, 5 and 266).
Bibliography
Trapp 1882
Mrázek 2000
Řebounová - Šlancarová 2008
/Description: V. Šlancarová - D. Urbanová - CBd/
B: Hidden.
Probably post-antique. For the image of Ares in arms on amulets, see Damigeron - Evax, s.v. Sardio; ibidem XXVIII, s.v. Lapis chalcedonius (Halleux - Schamp 1985, 233, 5 and 266).
Bibliography
Trapp 1882
Mrázek 2000
Řebounová - Šlancarová 2008
/Description: V. Šlancarová - D. Urbanová - CBd/
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CBd-1222. 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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