Gem design: Figure riding a ram (A) Vox, characteres

PP-ID:

PP-6156

Classification:

amulet design

Collection:

Whereabouts unknown

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 132

Former Collections:

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

Material:

lapis lazuli (blue)

Iconography:

ram; male figure; mantle; cap; clothing (all types)

Divine Names & Voces:

voces, unidentified

Design for a transverse oval lapis lazuli gem.

Side A: Ram in profile, leaping toward the right, with a youthful figure (Phrixos?) on its back, who wears a mantle over his lower body and a cap.
Side B: Two-line inscription including characteres: βρισμη | αξ, three characteres → unidentified vox.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 21, no. 132 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 378, pl. 176D (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).

Further resources on PP-6156
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus on the missing object

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Credits After Capello 1702, pl. 21, no. 132.

Notes Side A and B of PP-6156