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Offline rami1785

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help identify seal ring
« on: August 01, 2017, 08:54:40 pm »
can you guys identify this  :)
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Re: help identify seal ring
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2017, 04:58:28 am »
The bust is evidently Mercurius, identified by the caduceus over his shoulder. Busts of Mercury are relatively common on seal rings intaglios from Roman times. The inscription reads OVITWPIC, which I can't make sense of. Perhaps it a Greek transliteration of Victoris (of Victor) - OVIKTWPIC, but K is missing.
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Re: help identify seal ring
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2017, 11:01:07 am »
maybe its aramic letter ?
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Re: help identify seal ring
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2017, 08:37:16 am »
No, it is Greek. You can clearly read OVITWPIC - Ouitoris.
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Re: help identify seal ring
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2017, 12:53:13 pm »
I don't have any Hermes portrait with an inscription in my corpus, but interestingly I know one stone with standing Hermes and an inscription "AGRIPPÔSAS" ( :Greek_Alpha: :Greek_Gamma: :Greek_Rho: :Greek_Iota: :Greek_Pi_3: :Greek_Omicron: :GreeK_Sigma: :Greek_Alpha: :GreeK_Sigma:). I think it looks like a person name, rather than an invocation on an amulet.

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