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Magical gem: Heracles and Athena (A) Harpocrates on the lotus (B)
CBd-Number:
CBd-3027
ID-Number:
Wu_Ex-Museo Borgiano 189
Collection:
Int_Whereabouts unknown
Inventory:
Ex-Museo Borgiano 189
Former Collections:
Borgia, Stefano (Velletri 1731 – Lione 1804)
Material:
haematite (black)
Iconography:
Harpocrates seated with knees drawn up; weapon: helmet; weapon: spear; weapon: shield; weapon: club; Heracles; star; moon, crescent; flail; gesture, hand raised to mouth; plant: lotus buds (2); Harpocrates sitting on lotus flower; clothing: garment
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified; Ἡρακλῆς

A: Nude Heracles standing to front, holding a club in his lowered right hand, lion's skin in his left hand. To his left, Athena standing to front, head to right, wearing peplos and helmet, holding a shield in her lowered right hand and a spear pointing downwards in her left hand. Greek inscription above the figures, in two lines: θες[---]|βο[---] → unidentified voces; in the exergue, in two lines: ηρακλουρα|βοηθε → Ἡράκλ<εις> οὐρά<νιε>  βοήθε<ι>. 'Heavenly Heracles, help!'
B: Harpocrates sitting nude with knees drawn up, to left, upon a lotus flower with two buds. Left hand bent in elbow and holding a flail, resting on the shoulder. Above Harpocrates, a crescent open to top, near the flower an eight-pointed star. Between the moon and the star, Greek inscription in two lines: υδοισινεγη|ακτι → unidentified voces.

Bibliography
Georg Zoëga, in Musei d'Italia III /1880/, 438-39, no. 31. A series of drawings designed for the Zoëga-catalogue is now preserved at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen; for CBd-3027 see D1369.

Last modified: 2020-05-03 15:37:09
Link:cbd.mfab.hu/cbd/3027
CITE THIS PAGE
CBd-3027. 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/3027 on 09-06-2025.

Image-ID 9773

Credits www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk

Rights Thorvaldsens Museum / Public Domain

Notes Drawing preserved at Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. D1369