Scarab with Neoptolemos and Polyxena Set in a Swivel Ring

first half 5th century BCE (Late Archaic-early Classical) Overall: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm) Citation

This scarab bears an image of the Greek warrior Neoptolemos, on the right, and the Trojan princess Polyxena, on the left, carved in intaglio on the underside.

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Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 105; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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