Heliotrope gem: Anubis with scorpion

PP-ID:

PP-1676

Classification:

gem, magical

Collection ID:

DE_Kassel-HKH_Ge 144

Collection:

Kassel, Antikensammlung, Hessen Kassel Heritage

Collection Inventory:

Ge 144

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 186; AGD III, no. Kassel 144; Michel 2001, no. 41; Michel, DMG, no. 24.3.a_3

Former Collections:

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

Material:

jasper, green and red

Dimensions:

11.7 x 9.4 x 2.7 mm

Iconography:

Anubis; tunic; mantle; shoes: boots; lotus crown?; palm branch; scorpion

Green-yellow jasper gem. Upright oval, both sides flat, trapezoid section. (Shape 8). Intact.

Side A: Jackal-headed Anubis standing on a baseline, in profile facing right, wearing tunic, mantle, and boots, head crowned with a lotus (?). The chlamys is thrown over his bent right arm, the hand is hidden. There is a palm branch in his left; a scorpion crawls upwards by the left leg.
Side B: Plain.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 31, no. 186 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 362, pl. 154I (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Zazoff, AGD III >>, 231, no. 144.
• Michel 2001 >>, 48, no. 41; click here for the full-text excerpt.
• Michel, DMG >>, no. 24.3.a_3.

Further resources on PP-1676
• Hessen Kassel Heritage Online
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus