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| Keywords: Egyptian - Gnostic Gem with Scarab - Walters 42872 - Reverse.jpg This gem displays an uroborus a serpent which swallows its own tail to create a closed circle encircling a scarab beetle and a long inscription which is made up of magical words The reverse displays a Pataikos standing on crocodiles flanked by the goddesses Isis and Nephthys Above the god is a head of Hathor with a winged sun-disk Gems with magical icons and words were believed to be protective century 1 3 Roman hematite H 1 1/16 x W 9/16 2 66 x 1 38 x 0 02 cm accession number 42 872 21196 Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Mrs Henry Walters Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1942 Walters Art Museum 1942 by purchase Museum purchase formerly part of the Walters Collection 1942 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian art in the Walters Art Museum Pataikos Works of Roman Egypt Art of Roman Egypt in the Walters Art Museum Gnosticism Hathor and health | ||||
