Votive gem: 'Lumina restituta'
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CBd-Number:
CBd-178
ID-Number:
DE-Berlin-Ant_FG 8340
Collection:
DE_Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung
Inventory:
FG 8340
Former Collections:
Stosch, Philipp von, Collection; Frederick the Great Collection
Material:
onyx (banded)
Dimensions:
15.8 x 19.1 mm (with mount)
Iconography:
animal: lizard
A: Lizard crawling vertically upwards, with long tail and four outstretched limbs. Inscription around, beginning at top right, next to the head of the lizard: → lumina restituta. 'Vision restituted'. Mounted in a post-antique ring (18th century).
Bibliography
Panofka 1852 on CBd-178
Furtwängler 1896, 306, no. 8340, pl. 60.
Mastrocinque 2009, 63-64.
Bibliography
Panofka 1852 on CBd-178
Furtwängler 1896, 306, no. 8340, pl. 60.
Mastrocinque 2009, 63-64.
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