This amulet features Abraxas with a human body, a canine head, and lower extremities in the shape of a serpent, or perhaps a fish tail. The creature holds a sword with his left hand and a palm branch in his right.
Era: Byzantine.
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.
From the collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Ālihat aṭ-Ṭibb wa Mašāhidahā. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXV 1975 (pp. 83-116).
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