Lot Essay
Cf. A. Furtwängler, Die Antiken Gemmen, Leipzig-Berlin, 1900, pl. XXIX, no. 75, for similar.
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1ST CENTURY B.C.
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A GRAECO-ROMAN CORNELIAN INTAGLIO OF A 'COMPOSITE' HELMET SURMOUNTED BY A LION
1ST CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a sleeping hound atop a boar's and ram's head, with club of Hercules, the whole 'helmet and cheek pieces' surmounted by a lion on whose back a butterfly alights, a wheat-ear to the side, in later ring setting
1.1 x 0.7 cm.; 2.3 cm. across inner hoop
1ST CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a sleeping hound atop a boar's and ram's head, with club of Hercules, the whole 'helmet and cheek pieces' surmounted by a lion on whose back a butterfly alights, a wheat-ear to the side, in later ring setting
1.1 x 0.7 cm.; 2.3 cm. across inner hoop
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