Cairo / amulet / Hematite / Silver
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.02.6033
- Other Number
- Bonner 204
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- amulet
- Lot
- Blanchard
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Amulets
- Weight
- 5g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Full Artifact Description
- Obv.: Harpocrates seated to l. in small papyrus boat, knees drawn up, hands in usual position; head smooth except for scalp lock; disk over head, star at l. of head, crescent at r. Above, three scarabs, at l., three hawks, at r., three goats. The lower part of the design is broken off, but the heads of two reptiles can be seen under the l. end of the boat. Rev.: Chabrach formula in five lines. There are also other letters round the margin, making no sense. Haematite. Upright oval, but about a fourth has broken off at the bottom, after which the remainder was set in a modern silver (?) mounting. Present measurements 22 x 21 x 2 (Studies in Magical Amulets, Bonner).
- Subjects
- Harpocrates, disk star, crescent, scarabs, goats, hawks, Chabrach formula
- Earliest Date
- 100
- Latest Date
- 500
- Verbatim Date
- AD 100 - 500
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Cairo
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World
- Exhibition Curator
- Allen, Marti Lu
- Dix, T. Keith
- Publication Title
- Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian
- Publication Author
- Bonner, Cambell
- Publication Year
- 1950
- Class Title
- The Moving Image In The Middle Images
- Icons And Idols: Art And Debate In The Middle Ages
- Global Health as World Health
- Ancient Medicine
- Greek Life
- Social Science Topics in History: Ebola and Histories of Global Health
- Fearfully and Wonderfully: Themes of Medicine in the Old and New Testament
- Magic and Witchcraft
- The Body and the Senses Before Modernity
- Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) (F2018)
- Greek and Roman Magical Texts 003 (F2019)
- Class Instructor
- Chatterjee, Paroma
- Hunt, Nancy Rose
- Das, Aileen
- Lambropoulos, Vassilis
- Collier, Kristin
- Ahbel-Rappe, Sara
- Neis, Rafe
- Ness, Shannon
- Renberg, Gil
- Class Department
- History of Art
- History
- Classics
- American Culture
- University Course
- Great Books
- CLCIV
- Class Number
- 394
- 197.008
- 392
- 311
- 329
- 154.006
- 381
- 497.003
- 191
- 125.003
- Class Year
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2018
- 2019
- Class Semester
- Fall
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3461 x 3464
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 0000.02.6033
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6033/0000_02_6033p01.tif
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"Cairo; amulet; Hematite; Silver." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6033/0000_02_6033p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.