DE_Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum
Inventory:
11368
References:
Philipp, Mira et Magica, no. 154; Michel, DMG, no. 36.2.b_3
Former Collections:
Hamburger, L., Collection
Material:
plasma (green)
Dimensions:
23 x 17 x 4 mm
Dating:
turn of the 2nd and 3rd c. AD (H. Philipp)
Iconography:
animal: cynocephalus?; figure, cynocephalus?; gesture, figure in hand; solar disk; rays (8); cornucopia?
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified; ορωριουθ, variants
A: Cynocephalus (?) standing in three-quarter view to right, head to left, topped with the solar disk. Right hand bent in elbow, left hand holding a figure (a baboon or Harpocrates?) crowned with eight rays, left hand holding a cornucopia (?). On the left, characteres, on the right, inscription in six lines: ωρ|ωρο|θαεχ|ωανα|οαου||θιιιδρ → ωρωροθ{α}, variant of ορωριουθ; εχω? (H. Philipp) or εχ ω ανα οαουθ →"ὦ ἄνα (= ἄναξ) Θῶθ”? (H. Philipp); unidentified vox.
B: Plain.
CBd-2109. 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/2109 on 08-02-2023.