Magical gem: Anubis (A) letters (C) Isis, Pan and Pantheos (D)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1265
ID-Number:
US-AA-KMA_1963.04.0021
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Inventory:
1963.04.0021
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 363; Michel, DMG, no. 30.2.c_2
Material:
amazonite (green)
Dimensions:
21 x 18 x 8 mm
Iconography:
Anubis; clothing: garment; Pantheos; Harpocrates; weapon: pedum; syrinx; Pan; gesture, dancing; flail; gesture, figure in hand; snake; Isis; moon, crescent; scepter, unspecified; scorpion; clothing: tunic; clothing: mantle; globus; crown, unspecified
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified
Logoi:
χαβραχ-logos
A: Anubis standing on a globe, head to left, wearing a short tunic and mantle, which hides his left arm. Right hand raised and holding a scorpion and a short scepter with an unidentified ornament at the top. On the left side, several letters, a crescent and a circle. Inscription on the right edge: "beginning at the top, the first ten letters of the Chabrach formula(χαβραχφβεσκηρφικροφνυρωφωχωβωχ), which is continued on the bottom of the prism, then upwards on face C, finishing on the top of the prism." (Bonner).
D: Isis standing to front, and holding a statuette of Harpocrates (?) with scepter and flail in her right hand and a serpent in her left hand. Below, horned Pan standing to left, dancing and holding a syrinx in his right hand, left hand holding a throwing stick. Beside, pantheistic god. Inscription around the edge: letters, characteres and at right: ονιταπ?] τωζαυχτατ|απ?]ζα?]χαζ → unidentified voces.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1265
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1265
D: Isis standing to front, and holding a statuette of Harpocrates (?) with scepter and flail in her right hand and a serpent in her left hand. Below, horned Pan standing to left, dancing and holding a syrinx in his right hand, left hand holding a throwing stick. Beside, pantheistic god. Inscription around the edge: letters, characteres and at right: ονιταπ?] τωζαυχτατ|απ?]ζα?]χαζ → unidentified voces.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1265
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1265
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CBd-1265. 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/1265 on 09-03-2025.
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