Talismans - Magical(?) pendant: Isis, Osiris, Harpocrates

Magical(?) pendant: Isis, Osiris, Harpocrates

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CBd-Number:

CBd-490

ID-Number:

GB-BM-MMEu_G 477, EA 56477

Collection:

GB_London, The British Museum

Inventory:

G 477 (EA 56477)

References:

Bonner 1951, no. 4; Michel, BM, no. 90; Michel, DMG, no. 30.6.d_7

Former Collections:

Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston

Material:

siltstone

Dimensions:

48 x 38 x 5 mm

Dating:

3rd c. AD (Michel)

Iconography:

Isis; crown, Isis-; scepter, unspecified; clothing: starry mantle; clothing, unspecified; clothing: tunic; stars (20); side-lock of youth; crown, hemhem; clothing: kilt; pedestal; uraeus; solar disk; gesture, embrace; scepter, with cow on the top; clothing: mantle; Osiris; Horus; clothing: bandage

A: Enclosed within an irregular square frame interpreted as the starry mantle of the goddess: in the middle, Isis-Hathor-Aphrodite standing to front, head to right, wearing a tunic and mantle on her lower body, and the double feather crown (or Isis-crown?) on her head. In her right: scepter with the figure of a cow on top, her left hand touches the shoulder of Osiris represented in a bandage-like garment. Osiris crowned with the solar disk and an uraeus, in his left hand a scepter, the right hand touches the mantle of the goddess below the waist. At left, behind the goddess, Harpocrates standing to left on a small pedestal or altar, wearing a kilt, and the hemhem crown. Star over his head, one over the heads of Isis-Hathor and Osiris, and eighteen others in vertical columns between the figures and between the group and the margins.
B: Plain.

Bibliography
Bonner 1951 on CBd-490
Michel, BM on CBd-490
Gordon 2011, 44, pl. 9.
The British Museum Collection database on CBd-490

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CBd-490. 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/490 on 09-03-2025.