Amulet(?) gem: Isis, Sarapis, Hecate
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CBd-Number:
CBd-2055
ID-Number:
DE-Berlin-Aeg_9830
Collection:
DE_Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum
Inventory:
9830
References:
Philipp, Mira et Magica, no. 79; Michel, DMG, no. 45.4.b_9
Former Collections:
Stosch, Philipp von, Collection
Material:
glass, yellow
Dimensions:
19 x 14 x 3.1 mm
Dating:
18th century? (H. Philipp)
Iconography:
clothing: garment; sistrum; crown, lotus; Cerberus; Sarapis; whips (2); weapon: daggers (2); torches (2); torch, burning; scepter, unspecified; modius; Hecate; clothing: mantle; vessel: situla
A: In the centre, Sarapis standing to front, head to right, wearing a long robe and crowned with the modius. His left hand holds a tall scepter, his right hand is lowered towards the three-headed figure of Cerberus. On the left, Isis standing to front, head to right, wearing a long garment and a lotus-crown. Right hand lowered beside the body and holding a situla, left hand holding a sistrum. On the right, Hecate trimorph in a long garment, holding burning torches in her uppermost hands, daggers in the middle, whips in the lowermost hands. The three heads are adorned with modii.
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Philipp, Mira et Magica on CBd-2055
Michel, DMG, 45.4.b_9.
Images
Cast of CBd-2055 obverse in the Gem Impressions Collection of Cornell University Library
B: Plain.
Bibliography
Philipp, Mira et Magica on CBd-2055
Michel, DMG, 45.4.b_9.
Images
Cast of CBd-2055 obverse in the Gem Impressions Collection of Cornell University Library
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CBd-2055. 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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