Magical gem in an ancient gold pendant: Osiris in papyrus boat (A); Sarapis (B)
Download PDF
CBd-Number:
CBd-462
ID-Number:
US-AA-SCL_Bonner 56
Collection:
US_Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library
Inventory:
SCL-Bonner 56
References:
Bonner, SMA D. 1; Michel, DMG, no. 39.4.a_2
Former Collections:
Bonner, Campbell (1876 Nashville – 1954 Ann Arbor)
Material:
jasper (colour unspecified)
Dimensions:
27 x 20 x 3 mm
Iconography:
Osiris; gesture, protective; scepter, was; crown, Isis-; gesture, arms crossed; boat, papyrus; Nephthys; Isis; clothing: garment; sistrum; modius; bird: falcon; animal: cynocephalus; crown, atef; Sarapis; clothing: bandage
Divine Names & Voces:
Βαϊνχωωωχ
A: Osiris as a mummy, standing to front in a papyrus boat, wearing the atef-crown complete with ram's horns and uraei. On the right, facing him: a winged goddess with horns and a disk on her head (Isis-crown), holding sistrum;* on the left: a winged goddess wearing the atef-crown, holding sistrum (Isis and Nephthys, both wearing long garments). Was-scepters on each side, between the goddesses and Osiris. On the upturned right end of the boat: a cynocephalus; on the left end: a crowned hawk.
B: Sarapis as a mummy standing to front on pedestal, his head, to right, crowned with modius. Around the edge: βαινχωωωχ → Βαϊνχωωωχ.
* Pace Bonner, SMA on CBd-462. Cf. Nagy /comm. 2009/ on CBd-462
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-462
Images
See the photography by G. Kornbluth
(In: 'Abrasax gems' of Kornbluth Photography)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide1.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/1rev.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of B in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
B: Sarapis as a mummy standing to front on pedestal, his head, to right, crowned with modius. Around the edge: βαινχωωωχ → Βαϊνχωωωχ.
* Pace Bonner, SMA on CBd-462. Cf. Nagy /comm. 2009/ on CBd-462
Bibliography
Bonner, SMA on CBd-462
Images
See the photography by G. Kornbluth
(In: 'Abrasax gems' of Kornbluth Photography)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/slide1.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of A in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/hsl/1rev.JPEG" target="_blank">Image of B in the Amulet Collection of the Special Collections Library
Last modified: 2015-06-08 12:48:10
Link:cbd.mfab.hu/cbd/462
CITE THIS PAGE
CBd-462. 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/462 on 14-06-2025.
Zoom
