amulet/ seal / Serpentine
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.02.6118
- Other Number
- Bonner 091
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- amulet/ seal
- Lot
- Sachs
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Amulets
- Materials
- Serpentine
- Weight
- 3.67 g
- Pierced
- 161
- Inscribed
- 160
- Full Artifact Description
- Obv.: Lion-headed snake to l., twelve rays round head, coils elaborate. Seven spherical eggs among coils or close by in field.
- Rev.: The usual symbol. Serpentine. Broad upright oval, 23 x 19 x 6. Obv. slightly convex, rev. flat (Studies in Magical Amulets, Bonner).
- Verbatim Date
- 100 - 500 AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Syria
- Production Site
- 140
- Countermark
- 161
- Exhibition Title
- Case 03 - Seleucia at the Crossroads
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian
- Publication Author
- Bonner, Cambell
- Publication Year
- 1950
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.02.6118
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6118/dscn0032.jpg
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"amulet/ seal; Serpentine." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.6118/dscn0032.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
