Bronze medallion: Holy Rider, Greek text (A) animals and angels attacking the evil eye, Greek text, trishagion (B)
Circular bronze medallion; no dedicated suspension loop or hole. Intact.
Side A: An engraving of the Holy Rider, nimbate, spearing a female demon trampled under the hooves of his horse. His spear terminates in a cross. Below the demon, a snake and another prostrate demoness. To the right of the rider, an indistinct figure; below it, ellipsoid shapes (eyes?) and another snake (?). To the left and right of the horseman, several charactêres. Greek text along the edge: φευγεμεμισιμενισολομονσεδιωκιαρααφιαωσαβαωβοηθι → φεῦγε, μεμισιμένι, Σολομῶν σε διώκι <καὶ> Ἀραάφ, Ἰάω, Σαβαώθ, βοήθι. ‘Flee, Hated One, for Solomon is pursuing you, [and the angel] Araaph [as well]! Iao, Sabaoth, help!’
Side B: The ‘much-suffering eye’, attacked from above by a two-barred cross and a pair of nimbate, winged angels with spears; from below, by two lions. In the lower register, below the eye, a scorpion attacks a lying female demon, whose hands are bound and whose lower body resembles a worm- or snake-like appendage. Greek text along the edge: [---]σαγιοσαγιοσκσσαβαωθβοηθιμαριακαιελπιδια → ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος, κ(ύριο)ς Σαβαώθ, βοήθι Μαρίᾳ καὶ Ἐλπιδίᾳ. ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts, help Mary and Elpidia!’.
J. Franek
w/ Phoinix-team, 2025
Unpublished.
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