Agate gem: Anguipes

PP-ID:

PP-4996

Classification:

gem, magical

Collection ID:

DE_Kassel-HKH_Ge 135

Collection:

Kassel, Antikensammlung, Hessen Kassel Heritage

Collection Inventory:

Ge 135

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 230; AGD III, no. Kassel 135; Michel, DMG, no. 3.A.2.a_3

Former Collections:

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

Material:

agate, brown and white

Dimensions:

17.4 × 13.4 × 2.9 mm

Iconography:

Anguipes, cock-headed; armour; shield, inscribed; whip

Divine Names & Voces:

Ἰάω

Light brown layered agate. Upright oval, both faces flat. (Shape 8). Small chip on the upper right edge.

Side A: Frontal view of a cock-headed Anguipes in armour, left hand raised high and holding a whip, right hand supporting an oval shield bearing the roughly inscribed letters ιαω → Ἰάω. Letters in the free field to the right of the figure (from right to left: ακ) and below it: α.
Side B: Plain.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 37, no. 230 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 360, pl. 147G (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Zazoff, AGD III >>, 229, no. 135.
• Michel, DMG >>, no. 3.A.2.a_3.

Further resources on PP-4996
• Hessen Kassel Heritage Online
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus