Magical gem: Jackal-headed figure
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CBd-Number:
CBd-327
ID-Number:
DE-München-SMAEK_ÄS 5359
Collection:
DE_München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
Inventory:
ÄS 5359
References:
Chifletius–Macarius, no. XIII 51
Material:
rock crystal
Dimensions:
23 x 16 mm
Dating:
post-antique
Iconography:
Anubis?; moon, crescent; scepter, unspecified; flail; hieroglyph, sa
Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8. Rock crystal. Intact.
A: Nude, jackal-headed figure (Anubis?), standing to left, with a crescent above three vertical notches on the top of his head. Left hand holding the sa-sign, right hand holding a bundle of scepters (one with a flower on the top) and a flail.
B: Plain.
Post-antique. The gem was presumably made after a drawing in Chifletius–Macarius, see CBd-2824. For a similar piece in the British Museum, see CBd-990.
Bibliography
Wildung 1976, 38, no. 86.
A: Nude, jackal-headed figure (Anubis?), standing to left, with a crescent above three vertical notches on the top of his head. Left hand holding the sa-sign, right hand holding a bundle of scepters (one with a flower on the top) and a flail.
B: Plain.
Post-antique. The gem was presumably made after a drawing in Chifletius–Macarius, see CBd-2824. For a similar piece in the British Museum, see CBd-990.
Bibliography
Wildung 1976, 38, no. 86.
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CBd-327. 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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