M. Lajarp as follows: “The real age of the gem and its

origin are not known, but the subject leads that author to believe it to be of late Babylonian workmanship. The stone is a white agate, shaped like a cone, and the cutting is on its lower face. ‘The shape of this gem indicates its dedi- cation to Venus. The central figure represents the androgyne deity Baalnu, Astaroth, Elohim, Jupiter gene- trix, or the bearded Venus Mylitta. On the left side of the cutting we notice an erect serpent, whose rayed head
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makes us recognise the solar emblem and its mundane representative, mentula arrecta ; on a spot opposite to the centre of the male’s body we find a lozenge symbolical of the yoni, whilst opposite to his feet is the amphora, whose mystic signification may readily be recognised—it is meant for Ouranos, or the Sun, fructifying Terra, or the Earth, by pouring from himself into her. The three stars over the head of the figure, and the inverted triangle on its head, are representations of the mythological four, equi- valent to the Egyptian symbol of life. Opposite are the moon and another serpent of smaller size than that characterising the male, which may be readily recognised by physiologists as symbolic of tensio clitoridis. In a