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Engraved Gem

Date

2nd century A.D.

Medium

Sard

Culture

Roman

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

Pantheistic deity standing left; the deity is winged, radiate, and wears a long chiton with aegis; in the right hand is a poppy, an ear of corn, and a sistrum, and in the left hand is a cornucopia; above left is a crescent, and above right is a star; in the field to left are a club, a caduceus, a lyre and a turtle(?); in the field to right are a filleted thyrsos, a serpent-entwined staff, a stag, and a shield(?); the god stands on a thunderbolt. Attributes of nearly all the gods, male and female, are employed for this pantheos. A goddess combining the attributes of Athena, Tyche, and Nemesis is common on gems, as is a pantheistic Egyptian deity on magic gems, but this type appears to be without parallel. The stone is discolored slightly blue.

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