Intaglios from the Roman World

These little carved gems are one of the great delights to come down to us from the Classical world, each one a little surprise, each one a wonder, because they can depict almost anything.

This one is in the Met, which glosses it as "Mummy of Osiris carried on the back of a lion, accompanied by Anubis and flanked by two winged goddesses (Isis and Nephthys), inscribed around margin: bainchoooch abrasax, and on reverse two lines of characters with the seven Greek vowels in order." Abrasax was a common magical world, but I can't remember ever seeing bainchoooch before. Thinking of making this my battle cry, or maybe posting it as a response to really inane tweets. Bainchoooch!!!

The Met explains this one as a "mystical invocation" of the uterus. 

Anybody out there who can read the text on the back? Is it really mystical or is that a highbrow euphemism?

Rat and elephant

Huntsman spearing a boar

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Sea chariot with a being who may be a sea god, or perhaps the deified Augustus

A sculptor at work

Snake

Cupid on a Hippocampus