Talismans - Magical pendant in gold mount: Hermanubis (A) donkey, sow (B)

Magical pendant in gold mount: Hermanubis (A) donkey, sow (B)

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CBd-Number:

CBd-14

ID-Number:

HU-MNM-RGy_R.28.1927

Collection:

HU_Budapest, National Museum, Department of Roman Antiquities

Inventory:

R.28.1927

Material:

rock crystal; gold

Dimensions:

11 x 15 x 5 mm

Dating:

gem, mount, 3rd c. AD (T. Gesztelyi)

Iconography:

animal: donkey; animal: ram; scene, symplegma; Hermanubis?; animal: sow

Divine Names & Voces:

Ἰάω; vocales

Place of discovery:

Brigetio?

Oval pendant made of sheet-gold with pierced openwork decoration and a ribbed suspension ring. Four circle-shaped mounts closed at bottom are soldered into the sheet. Two of them hold red undecorated stones (garnet?). An oval-shaped open mount was fixed into the middle of the pendant to set a double-sided engraved rock crystal gem.
A: Animal-headed figure (Hermanubis) sitting nude on the back of a ram, right hand grasping the horn, left hand holding the tail of the animal.
B: Symplegma-scene: donkey leaping upon the back of a sow. Vocales going round from bottom left: ιωηαιωωιαιαω → Vocales including Ἰάω. Under the donkey's belly, a letter (

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Bibliography
Gesztelyi 2000 on CBd-14
Gesztelyi 1998, 140, 35.

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CBd-14. 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/14 on 01-12-2024.