The CBd
Spier, Gems on CBd-1831
Copenhagen, National Museum, inv. Dfa 591; from the collection of Peter Johann Monrad. Red jasper, F1, 17.3 x 13.3 x 3.6; chipped around edges. Side A: ΗCΟΥ/ ΧΡΕΙCΤ/ΟC ΘΕΟΥ Υ/YΙCΤΟΥ{C}/CwΤΗΡ/ ?ΙΡ? (positive), “Jesus Christ, (son) of the most high God, saviour…”. Side B: ΙΑW/ CΑΒΑ/W ΕΛW/ΑΙ ΑD/WΝΑ/Ι, “Iao, Sabao(th), Eloai, Adonai”.
Published: Dactyliotheca Danica, nos. 131–2; Borge Thorlacius, De duobus gemmis Christianis ex Museo Monradiano (Copenhagen, 1813); idem, Katalog over Spenglers og Monrads Samling (Copenhagen, 1839), no. 70; CIG IV, no. 9096; S. Eitrem, “Die magische Gemmen und ihre Weihe”, Symbolae Osloenses 19 (1939), 82–84.
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