Gem design: baboon with the bust of Helios, ηνυμαρω
Design for a jasper gem set in a ring (?).
Side A: Ithyphallic baboon standing to the left on a baseline, with paws raised in greeting towards the small bust of Helios with a solar crown of four rays around the head. The bust is inserted between two letters of a Greek inscription around the figure. The inscription provides a variant of the ηνναμαρω vox. It is unclear how the inscription was intended to be read: in two vertical lines from right to left (μαρω | υνη), or around the figure from left to right (ηνυμαρω) with either only the letter υ set upside down, or the first three letters (ηνυ) upside down and in mirror writing.
Side B: No information.
Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 1, no. 4 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, pl. 157C (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• SGG I >>, 198, no. 85.
Further resources on PP-4997
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus on the missing object
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