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Intaglio: Lion
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Intaglio: Lion
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.
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