Bonner, SMA – PDF, 270.

but indistinct. Six rays on head. Tunic to knees, chlamys round chest, end over r. arm. The head is not distinct, but seems to be that of a lion, and not human; compare 185. Above, scarab with spread wings, then on each side, descending, bird, scorpion, crab, snake. At bottom, crocodile.

Rev. Indistinct inscription in six lines, .τ.αχεταδεχ.πεπτε. The last word shows that the stone was to be used as a digestive amulet.

Haematite. Tall oblong with rounded corners, 33 X 17 X 4. Crude, shallow engraving. The illustration is made from an impression, which in this instance is slightly clearer than the cast.

Described in Handbook of the Cesnola Collection, No. 4299, by Myres, who thought the central figure of the obverse to be entirely human. Illustration in Cesnola's Atlas of the collection, III, 31, 18.

Obv. Phoenix with seven rays round head, standing on egg which rests on an altar made of a single column supporting a broad top. Above, scarab; at each side, descending, a bird, a scorpion, a cobra; crocodile under altar. Two curves like a reversed S between the scorpions and the phoenix may be meant for small snakes or worms.

Rev. πέπτε, with Chnoubis symbol below.

Haematite. Upright oblong with rounded corners, 32 X 16 X 3. From Syria, like the next three numbers.

Obv. Similar to the preceding except in two points. The animals at the sides, in descending order, are birds, scorpions, crabs, cobras; and instead of the wormlike objects between the scorpions and the phoenix, there are two signs consisting of a broken line crossed diagonally by a shorter line.

Rev. πέπτε, below which are two attempts at the Chnoubis symbol, the first one wrongly made.

Haematite. Narrow oblong with rounded corners, 24 X 10.

Copied from a photograph supplied by Fr. R. Mouterde.

Obv. Phoenix standing to l. on crocodile, head encircled by radiate nimbus. Scarab at top, and at each side, descending, a bird, a scorpion, a snake. Opposite the phoenix's feet are broken lines that may be intended for the “worms” of No. 103. The neck and legs of the phoenix are greatly elongated.

Rev. πέπτε, the letters arranged in a descending column.

Haematite. Narrow oblong, lower corners slightly rounded, 31 X 12 X 4. Splinters lost from both sides.

Obv. Long-necked bird, probably meant for a phoenix, as in the preceding numbers, standing on a scorpion the tail of which is prolonged upward to an unnatural length. Numerous short linear objects, unexplained, in field. Crude work.

Rev. πέπτε.

Haematite. Narrow oblong with rounded corners, 25 X 11 X 3.

Obv. Nude man standing to l. on a round columnlike pedestal. He is in a stooping position, carrying a bag on his shoulders; r. hand raised, l. holding neck of bag. On the ground in front an eagle with wings raised. Above it in the field, a triangular object with a short linear projection from the apex. Feather borders on top and r. margins meet at a right angle, showing that the stone was originally rectangular at bottom also, but later rounded. The subject was suggested by coins of Neapolis Samariae, which bore the type of the “Marsyas” (really a Silenus) of the Forum, in token of the town's enjoying the ius Italicum. But here the type was probably used for Aeolus, and applied as an amulet for colic. The evidence for the interpreta-

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