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A Gold Comb- or Pin-head from Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. S. G. Robinson
E. S. G. Robinson
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British Museum
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I am indebted to the Curator of the City Art Gallery, Manchester, for permission to publish the object illustrated on fig. i, which was acquired some years ago with a number of other Egyptian antiquities in the John Yates Bequest. It is of gold, the maximum dimensions being 4.0 × 3.6 cm. and the weight 3.43 grms. Three figures—Demeter, Persephone and Harpocrates—are represented, standing to front on an oblong base the front of which is filled with conventional scrolls of vine sprays with bunches of grapes set in a rectangular reel-border. Demeter wears a peplos with himation, the end of which is thrown over the 1. shoulder, and a corn wreath with two ears rising diagonally from the forehead; she holds a sceptre in 1.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 1937 , pp. 79
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1937

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References

1 BM Jewellery, p. 241, especially nos. 2113 and 2119.

2 Tacitus, , Hist. iv. 83Google Scholar. Despite RE xvi. 2, col. 1250–1251, this is the natural meaning of Tacitus' words, and even if the general story of the introduction of the Sarapis cult be suspect, that is no reason to reject all the incidental details.

3 BMC Italy, p. 257, no. 144.

4 For cloaked statuettes see Maria Mozensen, Glypt. Ny Carlsberg: Coll. egypt. pl. xli and xlii; for I. hand on hip, Winter, , Terrakotten, iii. 2, p. 361. 5Google Scholar.