Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Haematite. Intact.
A: Two figures facing each other. On the left, a male figure (Hermes?) wearing tunic and boots, and holding two stalks of wheat in his right hand and a bird-headed scepter in his left hand. On the right, jackal-headed Anubis, wearing a kilt, left hand holding a torch, right hand holding scales (?). Greek inscription above the figures: φερω, between them: ιαω → Ἰάω, below the baseline: φσρεν → Ἰάω φ{σ}<έ>ρ’ ἕν φέρω. 'Ἰάω fetch one, I am fetching it.' (Translation based on CBd-2191.)
B: Three lines of characteres including planetary and zodiacal symbols (Taurus, Saturnus, Sagittarius, Sol and Leo).
The gem may have been carved after a drawing in Chifletius–Macarius, Abrasax, see CBd-2819. For a similar gem in the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna, see CBd-2191.
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