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Engraved Gem with Bes-Pantheos and Anubis (Main View, side A)
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Oval gem engraved with the image of Bes-Pantheos. The god is standing on an ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, encircling animals. On the other side, animal headed figure (Anubis) wearing a horned-disk, and bearing a was-sceptre and ankh.
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Details
- Title: Engraved Gem with Bes-Pantheos and Anubis (Main View, side A)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: A.D. 100–250
- Location Created: Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 1.2 × 0.9 × 0.2 cm (1/2 × 3/8 × 1/16 in.)
- Type: Gem
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Lapis lazuli
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 82.AN.162.77
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Stanley Ungar
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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