Red glass gem in ancient silver ring: Chnoubis

PP-ID:

PP-1021

Classification:

ring; gem, magical

Collection ID:

CH-Av-MusRom_66/9831

Collection:

Avenches, Musée romain

Collection Inventory:

66/9831

Reference Numbers:

CBd, no. 1021

Material:

glass, red; silver

Dimensions:

12 × 6 mm (gem); 21 × 19 mm (ring)

Date:

from a context dated to 50–100/120 (Zwierlein-Diehl 2019)

Iconography:

Chnoubis, lion-headed?; rays (8)

Provenience:

Avenches

Red glass gem in ancient silver ring. Upright oval, edge chipped.
Found in a well of insula 16 East in Avenches, in 1966 (Bögli et al. 1970, 37).

Side A: Hidden.
Side B: Schematic representation of a lion-headed (?) Chnoubis, to left, with eight small rays around the head.

Selected bibliography
• Guisan 1975 >>, 11–12, no. 1.16, pl. 2.
• Dasen 2010 >>, 24.
• Dasen–Nagy 2012 >>, 293 with fig. 2.
• Zwierlein-Diehl 2019 >>, 317, 323.