Yellow jasper gem: Baboon, Sarapis (A) vox (B)

PP-ID:

PP-1671

Classification:

gem, magical

Collection ID:

DE_Kassel-HKH_Ge 161

Collection:

Kassel, Antikensammlung, Hessen Kassel Heritage

Collection Inventory:

Ge 161

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 98; AGD III, no. Kassel 161; Michel 2001, no. 36; Michel, DMG, no. 36.1.a_1

Former Collections:

Patin, Charles (Paris, 1633 – Padua, 1693); Capello, Antonio (Venice, 1652–1729); Karl, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel (Kassel, 1654–1730)

Material:

jasper, yellow

Iconography:

baboon; ithyphallic posture; orant / greeting gesture; uraeus?; Sarapis; bust; modius; mantle

Divine Names & Voces:

ηνναμαρω and variants

Yellow jasper gem; side A upright oval and very lightly convex, side B transverse oval and flat. (Shape 8–9). Small chip at the upper edge of the obverse.

Side A: Ithyphallic baboon standing in profile towards the left, paws raised in greeting, head crowned with an uraeus (?). Behind the baboon, on the right, the bust of Sarapis, wearing a mantle, and a modius on the head.
Side B: Greek inscription in two lines: ηναμ|ορωι → variant of ηνναμαρω.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 16, no. 98 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 362, pl. 153A (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Zazoff, AGD III >>, 237, no. 161.
• Michel 2001 >>, 44, no. 36; click here for the full-text excerpt.
• Michel, DMG >>, no. 36.1.a_1.