Magical gem: Pantheos (A) mummy and lion (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-1667
ID-Number:
DE-Hamburg-Skoluda_M016
Collection:
DE_Hamburg, Skoluda Collection
Inventory:
M016
References:
Michel 2001, no. 30; Michel, DMG, no. 41.1.b_2
Material:
jasper, green to black
Dimensions:
20.1 x 15.9 x 3.8 mm
Dating:
2nd–3rd c. AD (Michel)
Iconography:
Bes, face of; clothing: bandage; clothing (all types); feet, in the shape of jackal's heads; mummy; animal: lion; tail of crocodile; tail of bird; scepters (2); scepter, was; protomes of animals (4-4); Pantheos; crown, atef; cartouche; gesture, lying
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified; vocales
A: Frontal view of a four-winged Bes-Pantheos standing with feet to right, upon an Ouroboros-cartouche enclosing five notches indicating animals. Head crowned with the atef (complete with ram's horns and uraei) and framed by eight animal protomes. The arms hold two was-scepters, a bird's tail and a crocodile's tail project to the left of the hips. Feet are in the shape of jackal's heads. In the free field, to the right and left of the figure, signs and letters: ιηιαι → vocales.
B: Lion in profile to left, trampling over a mummy lying with head to left. Below and around the edge, rest of an inscription: αλαμουν → unidentified voces.
Bibliography
Michel 2001 on CBd-1667
B: Lion in profile to left, trampling over a mummy lying with head to left. Below and around the edge, rest of an inscription: αλαμουν → unidentified voces.
Bibliography
Michel 2001 on CBd-1667
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CBd-1667. 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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