The CBd
Spier, Gems on CBd-1511
New York, American Numismatic Society; formerly Newell collection, no. 54. Black stone (called “limonite” by Bonner and “peridotite” by Schwartz), 30.8 x 27.9 x 3.5. Side A: Sacrifice of Isaac. Side B: Four lines of pseudo-Hebrew.
Published: Bonner, SMA, 226–7 and 310–1, no. 343; Goodenough, Jewish Symbols, vol. 2, 224, fig. 1039 (as Jewish); Klauser, “Studien”, 143–4,fig. 8 (who cites the gem as evidence for Jewish seal usage); Schwartz and Schwartz, “Magical Amulets”, 181–2, no. 44; Finney, “Abraham and Isaac”, 145, no. 4, pl. 3d–e; Steven Fine, ed., Sacred Realm. The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World (New York and Oxford,1996), 163, no. 36.
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