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Source Description
This intaglio depicts Europa, the Phoenician princess, seated on Zeus transformed into a bull running to the left.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
23662
label
Cameo with Europa and the Bull Set in a Mount
core
obj
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object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
23662
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Cameo with Europa and the Bull Set in a Mount
description
This intaglio depicts Europa, the Phoenician princess, seated on Zeus transformed into a bull running to the left.
provenance
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.
date
1st century BCE-2nd century CE (Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
gems
cameos
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
3.4
height
4
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 1 5/16 x 1 9/16 in. (3.4 x 4 cm)
Source extras
cul
Roman
med
onyx; mount: gold
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
none
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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0ab6d73b69f54074