Magical gem in gold setting: Male figure, Greek inscription
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CBd-Number:
CBd-4157
Collection:
IT_Firenze, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inventory:
1810
References:
Mastrocinque, SGG II, no. Fi 20
Material:
nicolo (blue and black)
Dimensions:
17 x 13 x 4 mm
Iconography:
modius; clothing: tunic; clothing: mantle; shoes: boots; cornucopia; Sarapis?; wreath
Divine Names & Voces:
voces, unidentified
Description: Upright oval, flat. Blue nicolo. Mounted in a post-antique gold setting with two rings.
A: Male figure (Sarapis?) wearing a modius, a tunic and boots, holding a wreath in his left hand and a cornucopia in his right hand, with a mantle hanging from his right arm. Greek inscription on the right and left side (ν's in mirror writing): ελεν|βον → unidentified vox.
B: No information.
Bibliography
SGG II, 41, Fi 20.
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CBd-4157. 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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