AUGUSTAN, LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A ROMAN CORNELIAN INTAGLIO OF A DANCING SATYR
AUGUSTAN, LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
With figure of an ecstatic dancing satyr, his head flung back, a panther skin over his outstretched right arm, with small oinochoe held in his hand, holding a filleted thyrsos with crossed arrow in his left hand, an upturned krater beneath his right foot, in later ring setting
1.7 x 1 cm.; 1.8 cm. across inner hoop

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Lot Essay

Cf. Furtwängler, Antiken Gemmen, pl. XXXVI, no. 33 and pl. XLI, nos. 26, 27 and 29; Richter, Gems of the Romans, pp. 45 and 148, nos. 178-180 and 693; M. Henig, Corpus, p. 102, no. 178; Maaskant-Kleibrink, Royal Coin Cabinet, pp. 185 and 210, nos. 393, 484 and 485; and Tondo and Vanni, Le Gemme, p. 169, no. 43.

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