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Scaraboid with Winged Thunderbolt
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Mottled red jasper scaraboid (intaglio gem in the shape of a beetle). On the dome side is shown a winged thunderbold of Zeus. The design is lightly carved.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Damon Mezzacappa gift; to the Harvard Art Museum 1986.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Damon Mezzacappa
Title: Scaraboid with Winged Thunderbolt
Description:
Mottled red jasper scaraboid (intaglio gem in the shape of a beetle).
On the dome side is shown a winged thunderbold of Zeus.
The design is lightly carved.
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