Sard gem: Hermanubis

PP-ID:

PP-1203

Classification:

gem, non-specified

Collection ID:

DE-Berlin-Ant_32237, 361

Collection:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

Collection Inventory:

32237, 361

Reference Numbers:

Weiss, Dressel, no. 661; CBd, no. 1203

Former Collections:

Dressel, Heinrich (1845–1920)

Material:

sard (brown)

Dimensions:

11.8 × 10 × 27 mm

Iconography:

Hermanubis; unspecified long dress; mantle; palm branch; stalk of grain; kerykeion; sistrum; cornucopia

Upright oval, side A convex, side B flat. (Shape 2). Dark brown sard, both faces polished, without damage.

Side A: Jackal-headed figure (Hermanubis) standing to left, wearing a long robe and mantle. The figure holds a palm branch in his right hand, and a caduceus and an ear of grain in his left. There is a sistrum below the left arm and a goat-headed cornucopia in the free field on the right.
Side B: Plain.

Selected bibliography
• Weiss 2007 >>, 317, no. 661.

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2026.02.05 10:00:08

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Credits Photo: Johannes Laurentius

Notes Side A of PP-1203