Drawing of a magical gem: Youth wrapped in snake (A) pentagram with characteres (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-2856
ID-Number:
Wu_Ex Chifletius–Macarius_XXV 103
Collection:
Int_Whereabouts unknown
Inventory:
Chifletius–Macarius_XXV 103
References:
Chifletius–Macarius, no. XXV 103; Mastrocinque, SGG I, 211, no. 116.; Michel, DMG, no. 9.2._3
Former Collections:
Paschasius, Franciscus
Material:
jasper, green and red
Iconography:
clothing, unspecified; pentagram; figure, wrapped in snake; clothing: headcloth?
A: Youthful figure, to right, wearing a headcloth (?) or long hair, wrapped from shoulders to knees in close folds resembling the coils of a snake, from which water (?) is pouring.
B: Pentagram with characteres.
For gems in the Skoluda Collection, Hamburg that may have been designed after this drawing, see CBd-1729 and CBd-1730. See also CBd-469 in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Bibliography
Chifetius–Macarius, Abraxas, XXV 103
SGG I, no. 116 (with earlier literature)
Michel, DMG, 254, 9.2._3, pl. 65,2
B: Pentagram with characteres.
For gems in the Skoluda Collection, Hamburg that may have been designed after this drawing, see CBd-1729 and CBd-1730. See also CBd-469 in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Bibliography
Chifetius–Macarius, Abraxas, XXV 103
SGG I, no. 116 (with earlier literature)
Michel, DMG, 254, 9.2._3, pl. 65,2
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CBd-2856. 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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