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A: Ouroboros, with head turned left, enclosing an ithyphallic Pantheos figure, to front. Head crowned and surrounded by small animal protomes. Four wings set relatively high at the shoulders, a crocodile’s tail projects left from the hips. Upper arms holding short staves (for thunderbolts), lower left arm a dagger, lower right arm a balance. Feet, to right, in the shape of jackal’s heads, knees decorated with tufts for animal protomes. Inscription in the field to the left and right side of the figure, read horizontally: ακραμμαχαμαρ. Letters close to the feet from left and right: ει → Ἀκραμμαχαμαρεί. Below the figure, fifteen characteres in two lines.
B: Inscription in ten lines. Four and a half lines of characteres with Greek letters, or adaptations of Greek letters. Inscription following the last character: *αυεβωθιαβα|θα*βαιθωβευα*αχεν|αχελειαζα*μερρειξα|βαρβαριωθ*τερχναι|φουει*αειαδδειν||ζαχρειε → voces including αυεβωθιαβαθαβαιθωβευα-palindrome, Βαρβαριώθ. Units of text separated by dots.
C: Inscription around the edge in two lines: αφθυχωβριανυπχηθιιλαμιψιχυχθυθηκα|ωχαβιαφθθυθηχυθηχηθριανψιχαβιθιηαη → voces including χυχ, variant of Λαϊλαμ?
Bibliography
Bonner 1951 on CBd-568
Michel, BM on CBd-568
The British Museum Collection database on CBd-568
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