2012.1.153: Intaglio: Lion
Gems
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2012.1.153
- Title
- Intaglio: Lion
- Classification
- Gems
- Work Type
- gem
- Date
- 1st-4th Century
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/72426
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jasper
- Technique
- Intaglio
- Dimensions
- 1.5 cm (9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: on the reverse, a name in Greek characters,
TIBEPEINOC
[The line below this is illegible.]
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inscription: on the reverse, a name in Greek characters,
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Eleftherios Sossidi, Hamburg, (between 1955-65 - 1990's), sold; [through Sotheby's sale 7742, New York, December 7, 2001, lot 314]; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (2001-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
Note: E. Sossidi (1913-1992) worked in Cairo from 1958-1968.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 2012
- Object Number
- 2012.1.153
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Yellow jasper intaglio with lion. On one side, the lion walks right on a straight groundline, rosette in the field to the left, star and crescent above flanking an eye symbol or "theta", and a plant growing below the animal. On the other side is a Greek inscription "TIBEREINOC" followed by a row of characters surrounded by a beveled edge.
- Commentary
- The name on the reverse is a Greek spelling of the Roman cognomen "Tiberinus."
Publication History
- Simone Michel, Die magischen Gemmen: Zu Bildern und Zauberformeln auf geschnittenen Steinen der Antike und Neuzeit, Akademie Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 2004), 306, no. 3.A.1.a (as Sossidi 9), pl. 48.1.
Verification Level
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