Magical gem: Harpocrates (?)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-3192
ID-Number:
NL-Leiden-RMO_GS-01130
Collection:
NL_Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Inventory:
GS-01130
Former Collections:
Hague, Royal Coin Cabinet
Material:
carnelian, yellow to orange
Dimensions:
15 x 10 x 4 mm
Iconography:
flail; Harpocrates?; Horus
Description: Upright oval, slightly convex. Shape 9c . Orange-red carnelian, intact.
A: Plain.
B: Nude figure to left, standing on a diagonal besaline, holding a flail in his left hand, right hand raised. Two diagonal notches above the head perhaps suggest a solar disk? Latin inscription beginning beside the head on the right and continuing to the left of the figure: ARCAD.
Bibliography
Maaskant-Kleibrink 1978, 358, no. 1130.
Rijksmuseum website on CBd-3192
A: Plain.
B: Nude figure to left, standing on a diagonal besaline, holding a flail in his left hand, right hand raised. Two diagonal notches above the head perhaps suggest a solar disk? Latin inscription beginning beside the head on the right and continuing to the left of the figure: ARCAD.
Bibliography
Maaskant-Kleibrink 1978, 358, no. 1130.
Rijksmuseum website on CBd-3192
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CBd-3192. 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/3192 on 14-03-2025.
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