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| Inventory Number: | J 3 | |
| Section Number: | ΣΤ' 28 | |
| Title: | Stone Gnostic Gem | |
| Category: | Jewelry & Gems | |
| Description: | Obverse: Harpocrates seated left on lotus flower. Right arm bent with finger to lips; scourge under left arm. Field completely filled with inscriptions. Edge bevelled smoothly, also covered with an inscription, single line. Reverse: Adraxas demon with cock 's head, right. Armouted body ending in coiled serpent legs; scourge in right hand, shield on left arm. Inscriptions on shield and below serpent legs. In field, left, and at bottom, five eight-pointed stars (sun symbol). Hard dark green stone. <graphic> | |
| Context: | Beneath Byzantine paving. Byzantine sherds. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 2-200, 2-201, 79-15-5, 79-15-6, 80-80-13, 80-80-14 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.018; W. 0.013; Th. 0.004 | |
| Date: | 6 April 1932 | |
| Section: | ΣΤ' | |
| Grid: | ΣΤ':57/ΣΤ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), pp. 43-46, pl. 8. | |
| Art and Archaeology 34 (January-February 1933), p. 28. | ||
| Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 475 ff, fig. 1. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933) Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949) Images (6) Card: J 3 Card: J 3 |
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