Gem design: vox, characteres (A) Pan with mask (B)

PP-ID:

PP-6152

Classification:

amulet design

Collection:

Whereabouts unknown

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 69

Former Collections:

Patin, Charles (Paris, 1633 – Padua, 1693); Capello, Antonio (Venice, 1652–1729)

Material:

jasper (colour unspecified)

Iconography:

Pan; mask; pan flute

Design for a jasper gem, both faces upright oval. Post-antique.

Side A: Three-quarter view of a standing, goat-legged, horned figure; pipe in the lowered right hand, mask in the raised left hand (Pan). Latin inscription around, clockwise from the left: cophcmtqp, characteres.
Side B: Letters and characteres in three lines: ana character l | αλεσ | characteres.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 12, no. 69 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 375, pl. 171A (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).

Further resources on PP-6152
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus on the missing object

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Credits After Capello 1702, pl. 12, no. 69

Notes Side A and B of PP-1652