tablet;
pendant;
case
- Museum number
- 1843,0724.3
- Description
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Chain and pendant case containing a gold tablet incised with a Greek alphabetic text guiding the owner to the underworld (sometimes described as an Orphic inscription). The inscription warns the soul not to drink from a particular spring in Hades, but to seek one by the Lake of Memory, where, after drinking, it shall be equal with other souls.
- Production date
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3rdC BC-2ndC BC (tablet)
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2ndC-3rdC (case)
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.50 centimetres (case)
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Length: 27.90 centimetres (chain)
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Length: 4.50 centimetres (tablet)
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Weight: 182.20 grains (total)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G69/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018 2 Nov-8 Apr, BM Gallery 35, Living with gods
2005 11 Apr-10 Jul, Seoul Arts Centre, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 25 Jul-8 Oct, Busan Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 27 Oct-2006 31 Jan, Haengso Museum, Keimyung University, Daegu, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2006 18 Mar-4 Jun, Beijing, Capital Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2007 3 Feb-27 May, Taipei, National Palace Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2007 14 Sep-2 Dec, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2009 1 May-20 Sep, Victoria, Royal BC Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2009 11 Dec-2010 10 May, Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2017-2018 2 Nov-8 Apr, BM Gallery 35, Living with gods
2018-2019 31 Oct-18 Mar, The J. Paul GettyVilla, Los Angeles, USA, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,0724.3
