Gem design: Four-winged Pantheos

PP-ID:

PP-6162

Classification:

amulet design

Collection:

Whereabouts unknown

Collection Inventory:

Capello 231

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 231

Former Collections:

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

Material:

jasper (colour unspecified)

Iconography:

polymorphic deity; animal protomes (3-3); crocodile, tail of; bird, tail of; feet, in the shape of jackal's heads; atef crown; was scepters (3); knife; cartouche

Design for an upright oval jasper gem.

Side A: Four-winged, polymorphic deity standing over a cartouche enclosing notches representing animals. A bird's tail and a crocodile's tail project from the hips to the right; the feet are jackal-headed. Six notches around the head indicate animal protomes. Three was sceptres appear as if behind the figure (one on the right, two on the left). The head (in indistinct form) is crowned with the atef crown.
Side B: No information.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 37, no. 231 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).

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Credits After Capello 1702, pl. 37, no. 231.

Notes Side A of PP-6162