2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN CORNELIAN INTAGLIO OF HELIO-SERAPIS
2ND CENTURY A.D.
With profile bust of syncretistic Serapis wearing the horns of Jupiter-Ammon, sun-rays and modius, with serpent of Asclepius crawling up the trident of Neptune, rev. the twin Dioscuroi, Castor and Pollux standing by their horses, 1.5 x 1 cm.; 1.8 cm. across inner hoop; and a Roman cornelian intaglio with the conjoined masks of Silenus and a youth, 1.1 x 0.8 cm.; 1.8 cm. across inner hoop, both in later ring settings (2)

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Lot Essay

Item one: for similar pantheistic busts, cf. Maaskant-Kleibrink, Royal Coin Cabinet, p. 207, nos. 471 and 472.
Item two: cf. Furtwängler, Antiken Gemmen, pl. XXVI, no. 73.

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