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Intaglio: Serpent-Headed god
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Red jasper intaglio showing a creature riding a lion. The creature, with the body of a human and seven snake heads, sits facing left, holding a flail in its left hand and a was-scepter in its right. In the field above, there are two crescent moons flanking a star, and in the field at left there are two characters. On the other side is a "voces magicae" Greek inscription followed by characters and surrounded by a beveled edge.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Eleftherios Sossidi Hamburg (between 1955-65 - 1990's) sold; [through Sotheby's sale 7742 New York December 7 2001 lot 314]; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (2001-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Note: E. Sossidi (1913-1992) worked in Cairo from 1958-1968.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Intaglio: Serpent-Headed god
Description:
Red jasper intaglio showing a creature riding a lion.
The creature, with the body of a human and seven snake heads, sits facing left, holding a flail in its left hand and a was-scepter in its right.
In the field above, there are two crescent moons flanking a star, and in the field at left there are two characters.
On the other side is a "voces magicae" Greek inscription followed by characters and surrounded by a beveled edge.
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