That's our statuary
type, all right, on the
Claudius II antoninianus. I found it also in
Sear III, no. 11370, illustrated. I was having trouble reading what looked like N for an S and, for some odd reason, didn't think of using Isis as a
Salus type. I don't have
RIC so late as this. And
Sear (or
RIC) doesn't know that 'basket' is not an option for Isis, but, on the other hand, perhaps neither did
Claudius II's
mint. But it does raise a question: Isis Pharia, in my experience (and I just went through 24 web pages of
Alexandria for Ant Pius, where I saw dozens of Isis Pharia as also she does appear on
Rome silver, I think), as the Isis of
ships benefiting by the presence of the famous Pharos, she has that big sail. I can see no excuse for calling this stg. Isis, with her most traditonal attributes, the
Isis crown, the
sistrum, and the
situla (and doubtless the Isis knot of her dress), 'Pharia'. I looked in
Sear just to see whether he said 'Pharia': he doesn't.
I
had rather suspected that this
standard temple statue Isis might be the
type seen in
Rome; I haven't even checked
BMCRE yet for Antonine
sestertii. In that case, I wouldn't be surprised if such a statue
type stood in temples, for instance, at Delos or anywhere in
Greece where they
had a Hellenistic Serapeion--most urban places, actually. It looks like a Greek statue of, say, the 3cBC.
What it is not, is plain from
RPC: anywhere but
Alexandria and anything but Pharia. I'll go to
LIMC tomorrow.
BTW: I thought of 'rattle' as onomatopoea, the noise made by pebbles or beans or gravel inside a container, a gourd or one made of clay (like the little Geometric bird rattle from the
Athens Kerameikos cemetery, from an infant grave). A 'clapper', I thought, makes a
sharp, high, impact noise, as, yes, a bell's or (as you found) other metal on metal. I didn't know the construction of the crow-dispelling one, which I probably
ran across reading
Hardy or some other Victorian, but, though vernacularly it may be a rattle, it...well, it doesn't rattle; it goes clackity-snappity, like a stick on a picket fence or a stiff card inserted to make noise as the spokes of a bicycle wheel passes over it. The Hallowe'en toys have a metal pellet on the end of a
bit of
spring steel, which, when shaken, makes quite a racket by rapidly hitting a tin panel. The crow-dispeller makes a racket, but not a rattle, too. Enough!
PatI think, having only the Shorter at
home, I'd better check the big OED tomorrow, too. A corner of my brain thrives on these things for desserts or appetizers.