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Scaraboid gem with a kneeling youth drawing a bow
Epimenes (Greek)
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 500 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Chalcedony
Dimensions
Length: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number21.1194
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
Catalogue Raisonné
Lewes House Gems, no. 027 (1920; 2002).
DescriptionIntaglio. Pierced for stringing (horizontal). Motif oriented horizontally. A naked youth, kneeling, in three-quarter back view, drawing his bow. Hatched border,
Attributed to Epimenes.
Attributed to Epimenes.
ProvenanceAccording to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 27: said to have come from Aegina; formerly in Prokesch-Osten and Tyszkiewicz collections; by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; April 7, 1921: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 30,000.00 (this figure is the total purchase price for MFA 21.1193-21.1221)