Talismans - Magical gem: Horus as child sitting on lotus (A) Hermanubis? (B)

Magical gem: Horus as child sitting on lotus (A) Hermanubis? (B)

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CBd-Number:

CBd-516

ID-Number:

GB-BM-MMEu_G 1986,5-1,104

Collection:

GB_London, The British Museum

Inventory:

G 1986,5-1,104

References:

Michel, BM, no. 116; Michel, DMG, no. 19.1.a_18

Former Collections:

Ogden Collection

Material:

jasper, yellow

Dimensions:

22 x 14 x 4.5 mm

Dating:

3rd c. AD (Michel)

Iconography:

gesture, hand raised to mouth; Hermanubis?; crown, unspecified; flail; vessel: situla; plant: palm branch; clothing: kilt; Harpocrates sitting on lotus flower; Harpocrates seated with knees drawn up; plant: lotus buds (4)

Divine Names & Voces:

αμωαθωαμωθιαι

A: Horus-Harpocrates sitting to left on a lotus with knees drawn up; the stalk of the flower is built of four smaller stalks with buds. His right hand raised to his mouth, his left holds a flail; he is wearing a crown on his head.
On the left side of the figure a vertical inscription beginning at the top: αμωαθω. On the right side of the figure a vertical inscription beginning at the bottom: αμωθιαι → αμωαθωαμωθιαι.

B: Standing man-like figure with mammal-head (cynocephalus?). He is wearing a kilt; his right hand holds a palm branch, his left holds a situla (Hermanubis?). Around the figure: by now unintelligible inscription.
A praxis known from a papyrus (PGM LXI 1-38) specifies that love charms had to be incised with the image of Horus on a lotus flower and the magical name Abraxas. Pieces with the Horus-scheme used as love charms: CBd-533, CBd-534.

Bibliography
Michel, BM on CBd-516
The British Museum Collection database on CBd-516

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CBd-516. 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/516 on 20-04-2025.