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Scarab with Herakles brandishing club

Greek
Archaic Period
6th century B.C.

Medium/Technique Carnelian
Dimensions 1.4 cm (9/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.729
NOT ON VIEW

DescriptionIntaglio. Pierced for stringing. Motif is vertical. Herakles standing at left, faces right and raises club in his right hand, while holding a bow in his left. Quiver is hanging across his body. At right, a smaller figure steps back, with hands help up in supplication. Hatched border. Exergue has alternating diagonal lines. Beetle: hatched front legs. Double line between thorax and elytra. Line separating elytra.
ProvenanceBy 1897, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 262 (bought in Naples); 1898, Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1898, sold by Warren to the MFA for $69,618.13 [see note]. (Accession Date: September 20, 1898)

Note: this is the total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.