Intaglio engraved agate gem with Hercules

An image of Engraved gems/scarab/intaglio. Heracles, nude and bearded, carrying club, running left, hound beneath. Intaglio cutting, black and white banded agate, height 15 mm, width 11 mm, depth 8 mm, circa 400- circa 301 B.C. Etruscan.

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Engraved gems/scarab/intaglio. Heracles, nude and bearded, carrying club, running left, hound beneath. Intaglio cutting, black and white banded agate, height 15 mm, width 11 mm, depth 8 mm, circa 400- circa 301 B.C. Etruscan.

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Accession Number: CG 105
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 906 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 444.05kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2015:06:29 16:02:25

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