Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Green and red jasper. Intact.
A: Man wearing armour and boots, standing to front, with a rearing snake held in each hand. There is a tropaion fixed upon the head, to right. Three lines of inscriptions in mirror writing on each side. On the right: ρωζομαληλυχη|ηχωδομαρυνο|νευονδη; on the left: μερμονοχωαηο|υηπερεμωργομα|ληννυσσωρ → unidentified voces.
B: Inscribed in four lines: αιεηωυ|ωιεηαι|οεωυ|αοεω → vocales.
Post-antique. Copy after a drawing in Chifletius–Macarius, Abraxas, see CBd-2849. For parallels, see also
CBd-969, and CBd-970 (reverse), both in the British Museum.
/Description: Erika Zwierlein-Diehl – CBd/
Bibliography
Chifletius–Macarius, Abraxas, XXIII 94.
Bonner 1951, 338, no. 60.
Delatte – Derchain 1964, no. 287.
Mastrocinque 2014, 178, no. 484.