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Scarab with bull
Greek
Late Archaic Period
early 5th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Carnelian
Dimensions
Length: 16 mm (5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number27.681
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
Catalogue Raisonné
Lewes House Gems, no. 035 (1920; 2002, additional published references).
DescriptionIntaglio. Set in modern gold ring. Pierced (horizontal). Motif oriented horizontally. Bull facing left, between kneeling and standing position. Bull has shaggy hair around head and chest rendered by a series of diagonal lines. Hatched border. Beetle: hatched line divided thorax and elytra; line between the elytra.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (from memory from Greece according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 35); April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 115.26); November 17, 1927: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 161,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 27.647-27.761)