1910.70: Scarab with horse
Gems
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1910.70
- Title
- Scarab with horse
- Classification
- Gems
- Work Type
- gem
- Date
- 400 BCE-200 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Etruscan
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292702
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Carnelian
- Technique
- Intaglio
- Dimensions
- 0.1 cm (1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Owen Bryant, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1910.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Owen Bryant
- Accession Year
- 1910
- Object Number
- 1910.70
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Dark red carnelian. Scarab with flat base engraved intaglio; pierced lengthwise. Horse facing left in a globolo style.
Back carved as a beetle with incised legs and elytra; winglets with two incised lines; plain plinth.
Publication History
- G. Max Bernheimer, "Catalog of the Greek Engraved Gems in the Collection of the Harvard University Art Museums" (1988), p. 80-81, no. 29
Verification Level
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