IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206671 accession number: O.33-1951 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 December 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Oval cabochon garnet in a modern setting. Engraved with a youth holding a cornucopia. With a legend in Aramaic letters. Description from Henig, Classical Gems: Intaglio. Device: youthful male figure standing with his body to the front and facing right. Hi right hand is raised and he holds a cornucopia in his left. He is nude apart from the chlamys draped over his shoulders. Ground line. On the right is a Bactrian inscription, like 475 [CG 475] in a local form of Greek script, which Bivar suggests is to be read {phinaophorrn} FINAOFORRN, again presumably naming the owner. The inscription was formerly read findoforriz by Humbach, although the fourth letter is clearly A, not {D}. Bivar regards the etymology as problematic, but suggests that the name might be the Persian panah-farn, 'refuge of glory', on the analogy of the surname, panah-khusru, 'refuge of emperors'. title: precious stone NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found on a site on or near the north west frontier of India, Charsadda, the ancient capital of Gandhara LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Major General H. L. Haughton STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206671 TECHNIQUES ---------- engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: gem DATING ------ creation date: 201 - 300 creation date earliest: 201 creation date latest: 300 CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown