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Cultscene in ouroboros
A statue of Artemis is depicted wearing an enpedyte with exposed beasts. Around her head she wears a veil and ribbions, and in each hand, she holds a pole. To her left is a bearded and bald priest, naked except for a cloak around his shoulders. In his left hand he holds the arm of the statue of Artemis and with his right he holds a torch. Next to the priest is a sphinx, and sitting on the sphinx is a winged lion's head. In the upper left corner is a crescent moon. All of this is enciricled by an ouroboros. -
Johann Caspar Lavater: allegorical mourners at his tomb
Two putti fly above poet Johann Lavater's tomb, holding a wreath of stars, with the sun setting behind them. On the front of the tomb is a protrait of Lavatere encircled by a wreath. Beneath the portrait is an ouroboros enclircling a butterfly and a shell. To the left is a woman and two children mourning, and to the right, an angel with a downturned torch -
Personal seal with a monogram in Cyrillic characters
Personal seal with a monogram in Romanian Cyrillic characters. The seal pattern is oval and presents an ouroboros inciricling two birds who hold branches in their beaks flanking a heart. Above the heart is a cross and above that, a crown. Inscriped are the initals П В, written with Cyrillic letters. Below that, another set of Cyrillic letters, ІѠ, are inscribed. -
Tijd
Print depicting an old man holding a scythe, personifying the passing of time, leaning agains a tree. Three putti holding lighting bolts and a sickle stand in front of the man. Sitting on a wall in the background is an eagle, and on the ground is a sphere incircled by an ouroboros. -
Amulet met een Griekse inscriptie
A fragment of a plate of silver with a Greek inscription. 15 lines of text are recognized, surrounded by an ouroboros. The plates were likley amulets. -
Pantheïstische demon 'Hormerti' met vier vleugels, vier armen en Bes-hoofd, frontaal.
Cut stone depicting the Egyptian falcon diety Homerty, depicted with the head of the diety Bes, along with four wings and four arms. In the crature's arms it holds a lance, one appearing to hold a pair of scales. Under the creature's feet is an ouroboros enclsoing multiple small animals. An inscription circles the edge of the stone. -
Par les études de lettres immortalité est acquise
Print depicting a half man- half fish creature blowing on a conch shell, rising out of a body of water. Encirling the creaure is an ourobors, a snake eating its own tail. -
Ouroboros met inscriptie
Cut gem depicting an ourobors encircling incribed figures or text -
Eeuwigheid
Engraving depicting a barefoot women who hold an ourboros in her right hands and a two-faced head in her left. The women's face is orientented towards the head. At the top of the engraving is the word 'Aeternitas', a latin for 'Eternity'. At the bottom of the engraving is the inscription 'Circulis aeternam me, praeteriti atque futuri Me gnaram bifrons effe docet facies'. Translated from Latin this means 'You circle the eternal Me, the face of the past and the future teaches me the knowledge of the two-faced man'. -
Ringgemme mit Inschrift
Ring with twelve lines of Greek-language text carved into the gemstone that reads in translation: "{name of God}, {name of God}, {name of God} this is the forefather, who is around the body alone, passes through everything, Seal of Solomon {string of characters} the dragon is lion-headed." Around the text is an engraved ouroboros.