CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.

細節

A GREEK PALE GREEN STEATITE AMYGDALOID "ISLAND GEM"
Circa Early 6th Century B.C.
Each side with a crouching lion with its head turned back and its tail upraised, one facing left, one facing right
7/8 in. (2.2 cm) long

來源

John Dawkins Esq., former British Consul to Greece
Important Egyptian, Near Eastern, Luristan, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 19 June 1961, lot 23

出版

Boardman, Island Gems, no. 95.

拍場告示

Please note that one side of this two-sided gem has been illustrated twice in the catalogue.

拍品專文

"Island Gems" are generally cut from soft stone; their shapes (amygdaloid and lentoid) inspired by chance finds of earlier Bronze Age gems. As Boardman states (Greek Gems and Finger Rings, p. 118) these gems were "collected assiduously in the last century, especially on Melos," which is where most of them were likely made.