Cameo with Europa and the Bull Set in a Mount

1st century BCE-2nd century CE (Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)

4 cm 3.4 cm

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This intaglio depicts Europa, the Phoenician princess, seated on Zeus transformed into a bull running to the left.

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Charles Newton-Robinson, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, p. 15, lot. 48 [as from Egypt]; 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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