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Scarab with helmeted youth
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician
Late Archaic Period
early 5th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Jasper
Dimensions
Length: 14 mm (9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number27.764
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
Catalogue Raisonné
Lewes House Gems, no. 012 (1920; 2002, additional published references).
DescriptionGreen jasper. Intaglio. Head of a youth in profile to the left, wearing a crested, double-faced helmet: facing left a head of a silen; facing right a head of a lion. The silen is bearded and has pointed ears. The neck of the youth terminates in a row of five pellets; his hair falls down in a thick mat, in four rows, separated by grooves; each row is striated to render individual locks. Hatched border.
Beetle has double line between thorax and elytra; thin line dividing elytra with two short lines forming two very small triangles with the thorax border line. Stone cut away on either side of rump.
Beetle has double line between thorax and elytra; thin line dividing elytra with two short lines forming two very small triangles with the thorax border line. Stone cut away on either side of rump.
ProvenanceBy dates unknown: from Ibiza and the Kennedy Collection (sale catalogue, March 1918, lot 212.1, according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 12); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 120.26); November 17, 1927: gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA