Bonner 1951 on CBd-780
C. Bonner, Amulets Chiefly in the British Museum, Hesperia 20, 1951, 301-345, no. 26.
Obv. Ouroboros enclosing uterine symbol, over which are the lion headed Chnoubis to l., facing him, Anubis as mummy, and behind him Osiris as mummy to l., disk over head. The figures of Anubis and Osiris are thin and severely stylized, the torsos triangular in profile view. The uterine symbol is a flattened ovoid with two curving appendages at the top, on which Anubis and Osiris stand, and two short diverging lines slanting downwards from each side. Below are the grating-like wards of the key (see SMA, p. 85, Delatte's observation), but no handle is shown. In field, IAW . Round the circumference outside the ouroboros the seven vowels are thrice repeated and followed by #kép1#.
Rev. Altar with shallow vessel from which three plant stalks grow. To the one at l. is tied an ibis standing to l. Star in field at upper l., and a reversed curve at l. of ibis and at r. of altar – perhaps to suggest worms or small snakes, the supposed prey of the ibis. Below, Ορωριουθ Ιαω.
Black jasper. Broad upright oval, 42 x 34. Slightly convex on both sides. Remains of suspension loop above.
Like a closely similar stone in the Southesk Collection (Catalogue, pl. 14, N 42), this amulet was meant to serve a double purpose. The obv. design is directed to the cure of ills peculiar to woman (SMA, pp. 79–94), the rev. to the relief of digestive troubles (ibid., pp. 51–53); compare SMA, Pl. 6, 126 /CBd-1347/, which represents an amulet for sciatica as well as for women's maladies.
This stone, the previously mentioned Southesk and B.Μ. 56322 /CBd-136/ (shown in SMA, Pl. 6, 136 /CBd-136/) have in common some striking peculiarities of execution, especially the triangular stylizing of the bodies of Anubis and Osiris, and the carefully cut angular letters with prominent serifs which are used in the field, though not round the margin. I have no doubt that all three came from the same studio and represent the work of a capable artist with a slightly modernistic manner.
Obv. Ouroboros enclosing uterine symbol, over which are the lion headed Chnoubis to l., facing him, Anubis as mummy, and behind him Osiris as mummy to l., disk over head. The figures of Anubis and Osiris are thin and severely stylized, the torsos triangular in profile view. The uterine symbol is a flattened ovoid with two curving appendages at the top, on which Anubis and Osiris stand, and two short diverging lines slanting downwards from each side. Below are the grating-like wards of the key (see SMA, p. 85, Delatte's observation), but no handle is shown. In field, IAW . Round the circumference outside the ouroboros the seven vowels are thrice repeated and followed by #kép1#.
Rev. Altar with shallow vessel from which three plant stalks grow. To the one at l. is tied an ibis standing to l. Star in field at upper l., and a reversed curve at l. of ibis and at r. of altar – perhaps to suggest worms or small snakes, the supposed prey of the ibis. Below, Ορωριουθ Ιαω.
Black jasper. Broad upright oval, 42 x 34. Slightly convex on both sides. Remains of suspension loop above.
Like a closely similar stone in the Southesk Collection (Catalogue, pl. 14, N 42), this amulet was meant to serve a double purpose. The obv. design is directed to the cure of ills peculiar to woman (SMA, pp. 79–94), the rev. to the relief of digestive troubles (ibid., pp. 51–53); compare SMA, Pl. 6, 126 /CBd-1347/, which represents an amulet for sciatica as well as for women's maladies.
This stone, the previously mentioned Southesk and B.Μ. 56322 /CBd-136/ (shown in SMA, Pl. 6, 136 /CBd-136/) have in common some striking peculiarities of execution, especially the triangular stylizing of the bodies of Anubis and Osiris, and the carefully cut angular letters with prominent serifs which are used in the field, though not round the margin. I have no doubt that all three came from the same studio and represent the work of a capable artist with a slightly modernistic manner.
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