Radocsay Dénes - Gerevich Lászlóné szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 32-33. (Budapest, 1969)

BOARDMAN, JOHN: Near eastern and archaic greek gems in Budapest

sphinx in this style we can turn to another stone, described as a scarab.

7 The cutting of the Budapest sphinx is more linear and summary than those referred to here. 3. Agate scarab (Figs. 8, 9).

8 The beetle has a simple head; two lines below the thorax ; light carination between the elytra ; marked front legs ; plain vertical border. Bes w^alks to the left, shouldering a deer or kid. He is bald, bearded, with a threefeather crown. The lion skin is knotted round his waist and the tail hangs free be' L a j ard, Recherches ... Culte de Mithra, pl. 69.6, chalcedony. And compare the scaraboid from a Hellenistic grave at Nimrud, Iraq 24 (1962) pi. 17.4. 8

Inv. 1955.238. 17,3x13,5, height 8,3 mm. 4a —b. North Syrian stamp seal. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 5. Noiih Syrian stamp seal. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts