A: Harpocrates sitting on a lotus (?) flower with knees drawn up, to left. Horus’s right hand is raised to his mouth, the left hand holds a whip. Below the figure, a lion running left on a baseline. A character below the belly of the lion. A six-pointed star above the lion's head, and a crescent to the right of Harpocrates. Greek inscription around the figure: αβρασα ξσισι, character → Ἀβρασάξ, unidentified vox. Below the baseline: ωι, character → unidentified vox. B: Greek inscription in five lines: αρχε|οιαω|μερμ|ενν|ω → unidentified voces including Ἰάω.
For two gems in the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich that were presumably designed after this piece, see CBd-322 and CBd-326. Another gem made after this piece is preserved in the University Museum of Pennsylvania.
CBd-2763. 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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