TEN GREEK AND ROMAN QUARTZ ENGRAVED GEMS

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26.01.2023 12:30UTC -04:00
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Lot 163 | TEN GREEK AND ROMAN QUARTZ ENGRAVED GEMS
TEN GREEK AND ROMAN QUARTZ ENGRAVED GEMS

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.

Including a Greek black chalcedony scaraboid with a goat; four Roman carnelian ringstones: one with a portrait head of a man, one with a satyr's mask, one with an eagle's head and one with two intertwined monkeys; two Roman chalcedony ringstones: one with a bovine and the other with a lion attacking a gazelle; two Roman red jasper ringstones: one with a profile head of Zeus Serapis and the other with a gryllos; and a Roman bloodstone ringstone with an Egyptian deity wearing a hemhem crown with a diminutive figure below.

Largest: 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) long





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Private Collection, Hamburg, acquired 1955-1965.

Property from a German Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 245.
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