amulet(?);
medallion
- Museum number
- EA16617
- Description
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Medallion as amulet (?): a translucent green-glass medallion, circular, with, on one face only, a yellow thread extending on a diagonal across the face. On obverse, the profile of a bearded head, presumably Zeus, though the impression is too worn for certain identification. On reverse, within a square, profile of Eros (?) facing left. Poor impressions. Certainly made by striking or stamping with a die.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.86 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.53 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Glass Stamps and Weights' (1926) p. 2. Petrie remarks of the yellow threads "such streaks occur in a large part of the disks up to no. 55". He suggests, though on what authority is not apparent, that discs with such markings were used as currency of a sort. As it is certain that the yellow thread of this medallion was intentionally applied and not an accident, it obviously had some such function.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16617
- Registration number
- 1870,0709.83
