Amulet(?) gem: Isis, Sarapis
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CBd-Number:
CBd-2228
ID-Number:
IT-Roma-MNR_69697
Collection:
IT_Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano, Medagliere
Inventory:
69697
References:
Mastrocinque, SGG II, no. Ro 5
Material:
carnelian, red to brown
Dimensions:
15.8 x 13.3 x 4.2 mm
Iconography:
Sarapis; clothing: tunic; clothing: mantle; sistrum; scepter, unspecified; throne; crown, double feathers; Cerberus; Isis; calathus
Transverse oval gem, obverse slightly, reverse more strongly convex, lentoid section.
A: On the left, Sarapis seated in profile to right on a throne, wearing tunic and mantle, head crowned with a calathus. Right hand holding a tall sceptre, left hand extended over three-headed Cerberus, who is standing to right between the two deities. On the right, Isis standing in profile to left, also wearing tunic and mantle, crowned with the double feather crown. Right hand bent in elbow and holding a sistrum, left hand holding a tall sceptre.
B: Plain.
(Description: Chiara Ciampi – CBd. Alterations from A. Mastrocinque in SGG are based on close observation of the gem by Chiara Ciampi and Á. M. Nagy, 2015-2016).
Bibliography
SGG II, 132, Ro 5.
A: On the left, Sarapis seated in profile to right on a throne, wearing tunic and mantle, head crowned with a calathus. Right hand holding a tall sceptre, left hand extended over three-headed Cerberus, who is standing to right between the two deities. On the right, Isis standing in profile to left, also wearing tunic and mantle, crowned with the double feather crown. Right hand bent in elbow and holding a sistrum, left hand holding a tall sceptre.
B: Plain.
(Description: Chiara Ciampi – CBd. Alterations from A. Mastrocinque in SGG are based on close observation of the gem by Chiara Ciampi and Á. M. Nagy, 2015-2016).
Bibliography
SGG II, 132, Ro 5.
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CBd-2228. 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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