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Engraved jasper gem with an anguipede

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An image of Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Chnoubis with animals, birds and snakes. Reverse: Cock-headed anguipede. Intaglio cutting, jasper, 201-300 AD. Roman.

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Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Chnoubis with animals, birds and snakes. Reverse: Cock-headed anguipede. Intaglio cutting, jasper, 201-300 AD. Roman.

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  • Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.676
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 105
  • Camera: NIKON D800
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 684 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 418.22kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2014:04:25 11:40:01

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3rd Century _WF_Lewis_Collection _WF_Loan_Corpus AD amulet anguiped anguipede antiquity cock cockerell creature engraved gem figure Fitz_ANT gemstones heads incised inscribed inscriptions intaglio intaglio cutting jasper language magical amulet mythological mythology red Roman rooster serpent snake texts torso writing

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