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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.
History note: McClean bequest
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed by McClean, Frank
3rd Century-4th Century#
Circa
200
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Circa
400
Intaglio
Accession number: CG 514
Primary reference Number: 124592
Gem catalogue number: B 313(CM)
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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