Amulet / Onyx
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.02.6068
- Other Number
- Bonner 037
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Amulet
- Lot
- Nahman
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Amulets
- Materials
- Onyx
- Weight
- 0.3 g
- Pierced
- 161
- Inscribed
- 160
- Full Artifact Description
- Obv.: Anubis standing to front, head to r., wearing short tunic, holding situla in r. hand, was (this word should be italicized) scepter in l. Rev.: Plain. Nicolo. Upright oval, 13 x 11 x 3. Design on smaller face (Studies in Magical Amulets, Bonner).
- Magical gem with Anubis figure. The jackal-headed Anubis is holding a situla in one hand and the traditional was scepter, with a jackal head, in the other. An inscription reads tyche (or "good) luck!"). This text is carved in reverse because this gem would have been used as a personal seal, impressed on wet clay, hot wax, or molten lead to present a mirror image of the gem. Nicolo (a form of onyx); 1.3 cm h., 1.1 cm w., 0.3 cm th. (Death Dogs, Wilfong).
- Subjects
- Anubis
- Verbatim Date
- 1st - 5th C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Production Site
- 140
- Countermark
- 161
- Exhibition Title
- Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (exhibit)
- The Art & Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Exhibition Curator
- Wilfong, Terry
- Alvarez, Pablo
- Exhibition Year
- 2015
- 2017
- Publication Title
- Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian
- Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt
- Publication Author
- Bonner, Cambell
- Wilfong, T.G.
- Publication Year
- 1950
- 2015
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3957 x 3618
- File Size
- 526 KB
- Record
- 0000.02.6068
- Link to this Item
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"Amulet; Onyx." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6068/0000_02_6068p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.