Scarab with a Centaur and Two Lions Set in a Swivel Ring

6th century BCE (Archaic)

2.1 cm 1.8 cm

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This scarab bears an image of a centaur facing the right with a raised arm holding a club carved in intaglio. On the right are one complete lion with its head turned back and the foreparts of a second lion. A line border surrounds the image. The parts of the scarab's back are...

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Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Collection of Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 14 [as from Idalion, Cyprus]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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