The Pentacles

Athens 115 · Seal 11

Three stems rise from a narrow base: a straight central stroke between two curling outer branches. [1]

Delatte 1927, printed historical edition; Athens MS 115 · Delatte I (1927), printed p. 19, row 4, column 2; phylactery passage p. 18, Athens MS 115, Book II, ff. 17–18.

Pentacle profile

Tradition and Group: Greek Solomonic tradition · Athens MS 115 [1]
Position within the Set: 11th design in the catalogue; unnumbered in Delatte’s edition. [1]
Attributed Purpose: Part of the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle. [1]
Design: Three upright and curving stems rise from a loop-ended horizontal bar. [1]

Three upright and curving stems rise from a loop-ended horizontal bar. — **Source reproduction** Three stems rising from a base. Delatte, 1927, p. 19.

Three stems rising from a base

A short horizontal bar supports three rising strokes. The middle stroke is straight and narrow, ending in a small loop; the outer strokes spread to either side and curl inward at their tips. A further small ring lies beneath their meeting point on the base. [1]

Seal 13 also builds around a long upright, but uses an angular upper structure and a larger lower ring. [1]

The chest-worn phylactery

This drawing is the middle figure in the final row of the first plate. It forms part of the twenty-four seals written beneath names on the chest-worn phylactery. Delatte leaves the individual drawings unnumbered in the edition. [1]

Sources and editions

A. Delatte, Anecdota Atheniensia I
Delatte 1927, printed historical edition; Athens MS 115. Manuscript B (Athens MS 115): introductory description, printed pp. 1–2; Book II, phylactery passage p. 18, lines 19–27 (ff. 17–18); twenty-four seals pp. 19–20; this drawing p. 19, row 4, column 2. Facsimile PDF pp. 14–15 and 31–33.
The drawing appears in Delatte’s 1927 edition of Athens MS 115.