Soft stone pendant: Anguipes (A) pseudo-script (B)

PP-ID:

PP-4774

Classification:

Late Antique stone amulet

Collection ID:

Int-Shick_Gn1

Collection:

Shick Family Collection (Europe – Israel)

Collection Inventory:

Gn1

Material:

stone, unspecified

Date:

Late antique

Iconography:

Anguipes, human-headed; snake-legged figure; armour?; shield; whip

Light brown coloured soft stone. Upright oval gem with trapeziod section, both sides flat (Shape 8–9). Broken suspension hole under the Anguipes-scheme, another hole at the top, otherwise intact. Syrian type.

Side A: Frontal view of the human or cock-headed Anguipes in armour. Both hands are raised high, there is a whip inthe right one, and a shield in the left.
Side B: Pseudo-script and characteres separated by five horizontal lines.
Dots along the edges on both sides and scattered across the field.

Unpublished.
Mentioned in: Endreffy–Nagy 2025 >>, 367, note 40.