Magical pendant: Reaper (A) uterus with deities (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1347
ID-Number:
US-AA-KMA_26022
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Inventory:
26022
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 126; Michel, DMG, no. 54.8.b_9
Material:
stone, brown to black
Dimensions:
25 x 21 x 5 mm
Iconography:
clothing: kilt; figures, unidentified (5); key (4-bitted); uterus, octopus-like; feather; rays (4); Chnoubis, snake-headed; solar disk; moon, crescent; bird: ibis; water hose?; sickle; reaper; plant: tree; plant: stalks of grain (3); Anubis as mummy
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified
Place of discovery:
Simbelawin (Bonner)
A: Reaper bending to right to cut three stalks of grain with a sickle, three already cut. Behind him, on the left, a tree with a water hose (?) (Bonner: wineskin) hung on it. Above, an ibis perched on the tree and at left, a snake. Above, a crescent and a solar disk.
B: In the centre, Chnoubis in profile to left, with four rays around the head. On the left, Anubis, head to right and two figures. On the right, three figures with feathers on their heads. Below them, "a row of letters, partly indistinct, οι..ισ.α." (Bonner). At the bottom, an uterus-symbol with a key (probably four-bitted). At the top, a crescent and a solar disk.
Pierced side to side at the top for suspension.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1347
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1347
Michel, DMG, 54.8.b_9.
B: In the centre, Chnoubis in profile to left, with four rays around the head. On the left, Anubis, head to right and two figures. On the right, three figures with feathers on their heads. Below them, "a row of letters, partly indistinct, οι..ισ.α." (Bonner). At the bottom, an uterus-symbol with a key (probably four-bitted). At the top, a crescent and a solar disk.
Pierced side to side at the top for suspension.
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-1347
The Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database on CBd-1347
Michel, DMG, 54.8.b_9.
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CBd-1347. 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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