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Serpentine prism: Figures, snake, Ἰάω
PP-ID:
PP-4855
Classification:
prism; pendant
Collection ID:
Int-Shick_Gn82
Collection:
Shick Family Collection (Europe – Israel)
Collection Inventory:
Gn82
Material:
serpentine (green to black)
Dimensions:
22.4 × 15.5 × 7.6 mm
Iconography:
figure with indistinct animal head; female figure; modius; unspecified long dress; snake
Divine Names & Voces:
Ἰάω

Greenish grey serpentine with a rectangular shape. Intact.

Side A: Animal-headed figure walking left, torso shown frontally, the rest of the body in profile.
Side B: ιαω → Ἰάω.
Side C: Female figure, moving to right, arms raised, modius on head.
Side D: Snake crawling upwards.

Ch. A. Faraone (based on close observation of the piece in 2023)
w/ Phoinix-team, 2025

Unpublished.

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2025.08.29 11:21:17
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