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Intaglio with Bes, Anubis, and Isis
(Byzantium and Early Russia)
This oval intaglio bears a representation of a uterus with a key (locking it) with the seven Greek vowels around it, four on the left and three on the right. Above, from left to right, are Bes, Anubis as a mummy, Isis, a scarab, and a ram. Isis holds out her right hand toward Anubis and an object, perhaps a sistrum, in her left. This image is encircled by an ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail) and the magical "Soroor-Logos" inscription with a variant ending. On the other side is a Greek inscription across two lines naming Ourorioth.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
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.
Exhibitions
| 1947 | Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Measurements
H: 3/4 x W: 11/16 (1.9 x 1.7 x 0.03 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1942
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.873