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Source Description
This intaglio depicts a Canopic jar with a patterned body and the head of Osiris wearing a horned atef crown. Osiris was worshipped in this form at the town of Canopus. An inscription around the central image reads ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ (of Philip), referring to the owner of the intaglio.
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Document identity
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23330
label
Intaglio with a Canopic Jar Set in a Ring
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Source metadata
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23330
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title
Intaglio with a Canopic Jar Set in a Ring
description
This intaglio depicts a Canopic jar with a patterned body and the head of Osiris wearing a horned atef crown. Osiris was worshipped in this form at the town of Canopus. An inscription around the central image reads ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ (of Philip), referring to the owner of the intaglio.
provenance
Thomas Howard, fourteenth/twenty-first Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, 1638, by purchase [William Petty as agent] [Arundel Collection A, no. 83]; Aletheia Talbot Howard, Arundel House, London, 1646, by bequest; Henry Frederick Howard, fifteenth/twenty-second Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, by 1652, by gift; Henry Howard, sixth Duke of Norfolk, Arundel House, London, 1652, by bequest; Jane Bickerton Howard, Arundel House, London, 1684, by bequest; Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, by 1690, by purchase; Mary Mordant, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1697, by bequest; John Germain, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1705, by bequest; Elizabeth Germain, Knole House, Kent, 1718, by bequest; Mary Beauclerk Spencer, 1762, by gift; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, ca. 1765, by gift [Marlborough no. 285]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 45, lot 285; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 52, lot 285; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.
date
Gem: 1st-2nd century CE; Ring: 17th century (Roman Imperial)
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en
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rings
intaglios
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dimensions
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cm
width
1.3
height
1.1
depth
0.7
dimensionsRaw
Intaglio H: 1/2 × W: 7/16 × D: 1/4 in. (1.3 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm).
Source extras
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Greek
inscriptions
[Transliteration
Greek] PHILIPPOU [Translation] Of Philip
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sardonyx; mount: gold
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2185
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2513
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