Engraved plasma gem with Chnoubis

An image of Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Obverse: a stiff Chnoubis, upright, with its head turned left and radiating short rays. The creature's tail is looped once. In two rows along the left side of the gem in a legend, written in retrograde and deeply incised. Reverse: the sign for Chnoubis written once. Intaglio cutting, plasma, 12 mm x 9.5 mm, circa 200-circa 400 AD. Roman Imperial.

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Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Obverse: a stiff Chnoubis, upright, with its head turned left and radiating short rays. The creature's tail is looped once. In two rows along the left side of the gem in a legend, written in retrograde and deeply incised. Reverse: the sign for Chnoubis written once. Intaglio cutting, plasma, 12 mm x 9.5 mm, circa 200-circa 400 AD. Roman Imperial.

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Accession Number: CG 500
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
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: 44.49kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2014:05:07 10:22:20

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3rd Century 4th Century AD amulet antiquity Chnoubis Chnoumis Chnuphis crown Egyptian engraved gem finger ring Fitz_ANT gemstones gnostic green halo icon incised intaglio intaglio cutting jewellery jewelry legend legends lions magical amulet nimbus plasma rays ring ringstone Roman Roman Imperial serpent serpentine snake solar solar crown stars sun sun crown Xnoubis

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