Magical(?) gem: Cynocephalus with Harpocrates
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CBd-Number:
CBd-20
ID-Number:
IL-Landau Collection_3
Collection:
IL_Landau Collection
Inventory:
3
Material:
jasper, red
Dimensions:
18 x 14 x 2 mm
Iconography:
animal: cynocephalus; gesture, ithyphallic; gesture, figure in hand; solar disk; animal: crocodile; flail
A: Ithyphallic baboon standing to left on the back of a crocodile, also to left. The head of the baboon is crowned with the solar disk. The baboon extends both arms to the right, holding up the squatting figure of Harpocrates, to left, with solar disk on his head, left hand holding flail, right hand raised to mouth.
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Unpublished.
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Unpublished.
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CBd-20. 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/20 on 08-10-2024.
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