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Magical gem: Reaper (A) 'For the hips' (B)
CBd-Number:
CBd-7
ID-Number:
HU-SzM-Ant_52.231
Collection:
HU_Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Classical Collection
Inventory:
52.231
Former Collections:
Ráth Collection
Material:
haematite (black)
Dimensions:
33 x 20 x 3.8 mm
Dating:
2nd–3rd c. AD (Gesztelyi)
Iconography:
reaper; sickle; plant: tree; clothing, unspecified; Chnoubis-signs (2); plant: stalks of grain (3)

A: Reaper bending to his work, cutting three stalks of grain with a sickle. Behind him, a tree.
B: Inscription in two lines: σχ|ιων → <ἰ>σχίων. 'For the hips'. Below, a stalk of grain, upright; on the two sides: S-shaped characteres (variants of the Chnoubis-sign).

Bibliography 
Gesztelyi 1998, 140, No. 33.
Mentioned in Nagy 2004.
Mentioned in Dasen 2011, 59.
 

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CBd-7. 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/7 on 07-02-2025.

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