Magical gem: Isis-Tyche (A) snake (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1290
ID-Number:
US-AA-KMA_1963.04.0005
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Inventory:
1963.04.0005
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 23; Michel, DMG, no. 30.4_2
Material:
chrysolite (yellow to green)
Dimensions:
24 x 15 x 9 mm
Iconography:
clothing: tunic; clothing: mantle; cornucopia; crown, double feathers; Isis-Tyche; base; scarab, with outstretched double wings; uraeus
Divine Names & Voces:
vocales, in pterygoma form
Logoi:
αρπονχνουφι-logos
A: Isis-Tyche standing on pedestal, in a shrine, which is built of two pillars topped with a lunette. She is wearing a tunic and a mantle, her head crowned with the double feathers crown. Her right hand rests upon a rudder, the left hand holds a cornucopia. Above, in the lunette, a scarab with outstreched double wings, surrounded with the letters α and ε, continued on the pillars: εηηηιιιιοοοο (left), ο υυυυυυ ωωωω (right), ωωω (under the ground line) → vocales in pterygoma form.
B: Snake with head erect to right, head crowned with double feathers crown. Around, inscription in four concentric lines: αρπovχvoυφι βριvτατηvωφρι βαωχμημυεω → variant of αρπονχνουφι-logos.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1290
Michel, DMG, 30.4_2
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1290
B: Snake with head erect to right, head crowned with double feathers crown. Around, inscription in four concentric lines: αρπovχvoυφι βριvτατηvωφρι βαωχμημυεω → variant of αρπονχνουφι-logos.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1290
Michel, DMG, 30.4_2
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1290
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CBd-1290. 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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