3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

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A SASSANIAN CORNELIAN INTAGLIO WITH TWO STANDING WOMEN
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
The oval stone engraved with two draped females, facing each other and holding up a flower between them, crescent in the field above; a Sassanian cornelian intaglio of a standing draped woman with long tresses of hair, holding a wreath, behind her an inscription, 3rd-4th Century A.D.; a Sassanian dark grey chalcedony intaglio engraved with the figure of Tyche, with nimbus around her head, wearing kalathos(?), holding cornucopia and rudder, with a figure of Eros reaching up either side, 2nd Century A.D.; a green hardstone intaglio with a standing and a fallen warrior, inscription in the field behind them; and an amethyst intaglio engraved with a running deer with a peacock above, all in later ring settings, 1.7 x 1.2 cm.; 2.3 cm. across inner hoop max. (5)

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Item one: for the type, cf. M. Henig, The Lewis Collection of Gemstones, Oxford, 1975, p.65, no. 279; and M. Henig, M. Whiting and D. Scarisbrick, Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1994, p.186, no. 408 where it has been suggested that this scene represents a contract, perhaps between two deities. Item three: similar in style to Henig et al., Classical Gems, pp. 426-427, nos. 876-879.