Cameo with a Dancing Bacchant Set in a Pendant

323-30 BC (Hellenistic)

2.1 cm 1.5 cm

Citation

This cameo shows a dancing bacchant with an animal skin over his left arm and a thyrsos in his right hand. The lower half is modern.

Artifact

id	id 8848
contentType	contentType object
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provenance	provenance de Montigny Collection, France, [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
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source	source import

Source image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.105

Medium

onyx; pendant: gold

Genre

cameos

createdBy

Greco-Roman