Intaglio with the Head of a Lion Set in a Ring

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Late Hellenistic) Overall: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm) Citation

This intaglio depicts the head of a lion frontally.

Artifact

id	id 14439
contentType	contentType object
stage	stage normalized
provenance	provenance A. Morrison, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 70; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
rightsUri	rightsUri CC0
language	language en
pageCount	pageCount 0
source	source import

Source image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.104

Medium

garnet; mount: gold

Genre

rings intaglios

createdBy

Greco-Roman