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A ROMAN ENGRAVED AMETHYST INTAGLIO
1ST CENTURY B.C.
Showing a tripod-legged table laden with funerary banquet, a tall wine amphora to either side, a capricorn above; a translucent orange cornelian intaglio showing a man and a woman facing each other standing over an altar, a tree branching overhead, 1st Century B.C./A.D.; and a cornelian intaglio engraved with a locust alighting on an ear of corn, circa 1st Century A.D., all in later ring mounts
Intaglios ½ in. (1.4 cm.) long av.; ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) av. across hoops (3)
1ST CENTURY B.C.
Showing a tripod-legged table laden with funerary banquet, a tall wine amphora to either side, a capricorn above; a translucent orange cornelian intaglio showing a man and a woman facing each other standing over an altar, a tree branching overhead, 1st Century B.C./A.D.; and a cornelian intaglio engraved with a locust alighting on an ear of corn, circa 1st Century A.D., all in later ring mounts
Intaglios ½ in. (1.4 cm.) long av.; ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) av. across hoops (3)