Intaglio with the Head of a Youth Wearing a Ram Headdress Set in a Ring

3rd-1st century BCE (Hellenistic-early Roman Imperial) Overall: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm) Citation

This intaglio has the head of a youth wearing a ram headdress in profile to the left, alluding to Zeus Ammon.

Artifact

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provenance	provenance Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 28; 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 image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.114

Culture

Greek

Medium

chalcedony?; mount: gold

Genre

intaglios rings

createdBy

Greek