Magical gem: Helios (A) Isis? (B)
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CBd-Number:
CBd-4063
ID-Number:
It-Ravenna-MNR_1413
Collection:
IT_Ravenna, Museo Nazionale di Ravenna
Inventory:
1413
References:
Mastrocinque, SGG II, no. Ra 8
Material:
jasper, green to black
Dimensions:
18 x 14 x 3 mm
Iconography:
Helios; Isis?; clothing: tunic; whip; vessel: situla; scepter, unspecified; objects, unidentified; pedestal; clothing: mantle; gesture, greeting; rays (3); crown, hemhem?
Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Green jasper. Abraded, chipped on the edge.
A: Helios, nude, standing on a pedestal, holding a whip and a mantle in his right hand, his head crowned with three rays, the left hand raised in greeting.
B: Crowned female figure (Isis?) standing on a pedestal, wearing tunic and mantle, and holding a situla in the right hand, and a scepter and other objects in the left hand.
Bibliography
SGG II, 122, Ra 8.
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CBd-4063. 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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