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Scarab with horse facing right

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Brown/white/black banded agate. Scarab with a flat, base engraved intaglio. Horse facing right in a globolo style. Back carved as a beetle with incised elytra and legs, hatched thorax, and plain plinth.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics G. Owen Bryant gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1910. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Owen Bryant
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Title: Scarab with horse facing right
Description:
Brown/white/black banded agate.
Scarab with a flat, base engraved intaglio.
Horse facing right in a globolo style.
Back carved as a beetle with incised elytra and legs, hatched thorax, and plain plinth.

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