Engraved plasma gem with a female figure

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Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Obverse: a female figure in profile to the left. The lower part of her body is draped in a himation which hangs from the left shoulder. She holds a sceptre in her left hand and a patera in her right. Her hair is long, hanging thickly like a veil to her shoulders, and is secured by a lotus diadem. The encircling Greek legend includes four unrecognisable symbols. Reverse: Inscription in two lines 'KOPPA'. Intaglio cutting, cloudy plasma, 21 mm x 18 mm, circa 100- circa 300 AD. Roman Imperial.

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Accession Number: CG 490
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: 263.55kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2014:04:24 15:11:53

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2nd Century 3rd Century AD amulet antiquity clothes clothing diadem dress engraved gem fashion female Fitz_ANT gemstones Greek green hair hairstyle headdress himation incised intaglio intaglio cutting legend legends long hair long haired lotus lotus flower magical amulet patera paterae phiale plasma profile Roman Roman Imperial sceptre woman

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