Gem

Scarab

29-128-525

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-525
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Phoenician
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Iron Age
Section Mediterranean
Materials Red Jasper
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Fish | Bird | Soldier | Snake
Description

Sommerville: Red Jasper. An Amulet, with hieroglyphics. Persian and Sassanian Intaglios and Talismans, Case EE.

Vermeule: Red Jasper, scarab shape. Intaglio. Four similiar hieroglyphic-like characters, fishes, birds, or four soldiers, a snake below. Syro-Phoenician of Iron Age.

Height 1.4 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 525 - Sommerville Gem Number

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