Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Haematite. Intact.
A: Harpocrates sitting on a lotus flower with knees drawn up, to left. Right hand raised to mouth, left hand holding a whip. Below the figure, a lion running to left on a baseline. Character below the belly of the lion, a six-pointed star above its head, and a crescent, open to top, 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 four lines: αρχε|οιαω|μερμ|εννω → unidentified voces including Ἰάω.
Post-antique. The gem was presumably made after a drawing in Chifletius–Macarius, see CBd-2763. For a similar piece in the same collection, see CBd-326.
Bibliography
Wildung 1976, 139, no. 85.