Intaglio with Bust of a Man Set in a Ring

1st century BCE (Late Hellenistic-early Roman Imperial) Overall: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm) Citation

The bust of a bearded man appears on this intaglio. His head is in profile, while his torso is in three-quarter view revealing his back and left shoulder. The man is wearing a cloak over his right shoulder and a fillet. The image has been previously identified as Poseidon and...

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George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 28]; 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. 5, lot 28 [as “Neptune”]; 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. 6, lot 28; 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.
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संस्कृति
Greco-Roman
माध्यम
carnelian; mount: gold
विधा
rings

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