拍品專文
The underside is engraved with a squatting nude African man, depicted frontally but twisted to the right, with his head in profile, and with both hands resting on his left knee. The figure is enclosed within a hatched border.
For another scaraboid, identical in style but with an aryballos suspended from his lowered right arm, see no. 92 in E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Antike Gemmen in Deutschen Sammlungen, Band II, Staatliche Museen Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Antikenabteilung, Berlin. The Berlin example also has a crosshatched exergue serving as a groundline. For the Group of the Beazley Europa, which takes its name from a gem in Oxford depicting Europa riding a bull, see J. Boardman, Archaic Greek Gems, pp. 106-110.
For another scaraboid, identical in style but with an aryballos suspended from his lowered right arm, see no. 92 in E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Antike Gemmen in Deutschen Sammlungen, Band II, Staatliche Museen Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Antikenabteilung, Berlin. The Berlin example also has a crosshatched exergue serving as a groundline. For the Group of the Beazley Europa, which takes its name from a gem in Oxford depicting Europa riding a bull, see J. Boardman, Archaic Greek Gems, pp. 106-110.