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Gem design: baboon with the bust of Helios, ηνυμαρω
PP-ID:
PP-4997
Classification:
Collection:
Reference Numbers:
Capello 1702, no. 4; Mastrocinque, SGG I, 85
Divine Names & Voces:

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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Credits After Capello 1702, pl. 1, no. 4.

Notes Side A of PP-4997

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