Image research is impossible on a writing day. It slows everything down.
BM 1849,0623.3. “Curator’s comments: Etruscan style. Furtwaengler identifies the owner of the gem, Annia Augusta, with the widow of a distinguished Roman of the Republican period.” “Description: Banded onyx elongated scarab engraved with a draped bearded priest holding out a sacrificial vessel with a chain attached; in front is an altar with a situla (?) on top and a branch beside it. There is an inscription.”
The BM dates 3rd century BCE. I can find no scholarly publication using Google Scholar. It is not in Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS).
The inscription is clearly Greek not Latin, but the gens is Latin.
CEBACTH or sebaste for Augusta is very imperial but the gem looks v 3rd century CE.
The impression doesn’t show the liquid falling from the cup that is visible on the gem.
I don’t know what to make of it.
Do you know a publication? Please share.
