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Description: | Gnostic gem in hard stone, perhaps haematite, one side inscribed with figure of striding human-legged cobra, with Greek inscription surrounding, giving an invocation attested on other gnostic gems as to Lerthemeino (derived from Hebrew 'dew of God' according to Simone Michel, Die Magischen Gemmen im Britischen Museum, I, 2001, 375), here in the form "aus lertherminthino pisidathi birm". | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Early Roman Period; start=-30; end=149 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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