Talismans - Amulet(?) gem: Jonah and the whale, male figure, bird

Amulet(?) gem: Jonah and the whale, male figure, bird

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CBd-Number:

CBd-4062

ID-Number:

It-Ravenna-MNR_1475

Collection:

IT_Ravenna, Museo Nazionale di Ravenna

Inventory:

1475

References:

Mastrocinque, SGG II, no. Ra 7

Material:

nicolo (blue and black)

Dimensions:

13.9 x 13.2 x 2 mm

Iconography:

christogram; gesture, lying; plant: branch; bird, unspecified; clothing: tunic; rod; plant: tree; animal: whale; boat; Jonah; figures, male (2)

Description: Transverse oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Nicolo (?). One third missing on the right; the rest broken and mended, chipped.

A: On the right, Jonah lying under a tree. Above: a boat with a sea monster below and a christogram above. In the middle: a male figure dressed in a short tunic, holding a rod in his left hand (Mastrocinque: Moses) and another, unidentified figure next to him (with half of the body in the lacuna). Above them: a flying bird with a branch in its beak.
B: Plain.

Bibliography
SGG II, 121, Ra 7.

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CBd-4062. 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/4062 on 30-09-2023.

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Credits Photo: Attilio Mastrocinque

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