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Scarab intaglio with kneeling bull
Greek
Archaic Period
5th century
Medium/Technique
Sardonyx; carved back
Dimensions
Length: 16.5 mm (5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number67.625
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Jewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Gems
DescriptionGem with bull kneeling to viewer's left; head thrown back. Cable border, rough style.
Provenance1966, sold by two private collectors from Kavala, Greece, to Charles S. Lipson, Beacon Hill Coin Co., Boston [see note]; 1967, sold by Beacon Hill Coin Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 10, 1967)
NOTE: According to MFA curator Cornelius Vermeule, a brother and sister from Kavala, Greece, showed MFA accession nos. 67.624-624 to him and to MFA director Perry Rathbone in August 1966. The gems were purchased instead by Beacon Hill Coin Co. and later offered to the MFA.
NOTE: According to MFA curator Cornelius Vermeule, a brother and sister from Kavala, Greece, showed MFA accession nos. 67.624-624 to him and to MFA director Perry Rathbone in August 1966. The gems were purchased instead by Beacon Hill Coin Co. and later offered to the MFA.