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Description: Upright oval, both faces flat. Shape 8–9. Orange carnelian. Mounted in a post-antique gold setting with two rings.
A: Bust of Selene with a crescent on her head, holding a burning torch and bust of Helios with a whip, crowned with six rays, represented on a globus which is placed on a base. On the left: an ear (?). On the right: an unidentified object or a character.
B: Lion-headed Chnoubis with twelve rays around the head. On the left, Greek inscription: σμν → unidentified vox. On the right: characteres and Chnoubis-sign.
C: Greek inscription on the edge: αβλαναθαναλβα ιβεν → voces including the Ἀβλαναθαναλβα-palindrome.
Bibliography
SGG II, 59, fig. 66.
Dasen–Nagy 2012, 296–298, fig. 5 (the obverse represents the third decan of Cancer, the reverse the first decan of Leo)
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