Yellow jasper gem: Lion with baboon (A) voces (B)

PP-ID:

PP-1208

Classification:

gem, magical

Collection ID:

DE-Berlin-Ant_32.237,367

Collection:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

Collection Inventory:

32.237,367

Reference Numbers:

Weiss, Dressel, no. 667

Former Collections:

Dressel, Heinrich (1845–1920)

Material:

jasper, yellow

Dimensions:

11.4 × 15.7 × 31 mm

Date:

3rd century AD (Weiss)

Iconography:

baboon; kneeling posture; greeting gesture; lion

Divine Names & Voces:

voces, unidentified

Both sides transverse oval, side B lightly convex. Yellow jasper with two red veins, intact. (Shape 7, reverse lightly convex.)

Side A: A baboon kneels on the left in profile to the right, holding the right paw of a lion in his right hand, which faces him from the right.
Side B: Greek inscription in two lines: αζαγαρ|αχθαρα → unidentified voces.

Selected bibliography
• Weiss 2007 >>, 318, no. 667.

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Notes Side A of PP-1208