Pendant

Gem

29-128-2140

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2140
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Gnostic
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Man | Snake | Inscription
Description

Bluish Chalcedony. (Ancient gold pendant setting, with two entwined gold snakes). Figure of a man divided schematically with inscriptions on various parts of body. Reverse: Inscriptions and magic symbols, one of the former is a snake-like cartouche.

Height 2.5 cm
Width 2.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2140 - Sommerville Gem Number

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