Engraved magnetite gem with an Isiac priestess

An image of Engraved gems. Magical amulet. An Isiac priestess or Isis herself standing half right, wearing a himation wrapped around her body and secured at the chest with a knot. In her left hand the woman holds out a sistrum and in her right hand a situla (the pail of Isis in which Nile water was carried) her head is crowned with a small polos, like the modius often worn by Serapis, and at her feet stands a small, cylindrical altar, or perhaps the cista mystica, upon which are a solar disc and uraei. ground line. The reverse is blank. Intaglio cutting, magnetite, 13.5 mm x 9.5 mm, circa 200- circa 400 AD. Roman Imperial.

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Engraved gems. Magical amulet. An Isiac priestess or Isis herself standing half right, wearing a himation wrapped around her body and secured at the chest with a knot. In her left hand the woman holds out a sistrum and in her right hand a situla (the pail of Isis in which Nile water was carried) her head is crowned with a small polos, like the modius often worn by Serapis, and at her feet stands a small, cylindrical altar, or perhaps the cista mystica, upon which are a solar disc and uraei. ground line. The reverse is blank. Intaglio cutting, magnetite, 13.5 mm x 9.5 mm, circa 200- circa 400 AD. Roman Imperial.

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Accession Number: CG 514
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 55.78kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2014:05:07 13:58:26

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3rd Century 4th Century AD altar amulet antiquity bucket crown cylindrical deity disc engraved gem female figure finger ring Fitz_ANT gem gemstones goddess gods hair head-dress headdress himation incised intaglio intaglio cutting Isiac Isis jewellery jewelry magical amulet magnetite mythological mythology pail polos priest priestess religion religious ring ringstone Roman Roman Imperial sacred serpent shrine sistrum situla snake solar sun uraei Uraeus

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