King standing in profile to left holding two lions
Unknown donor
Depth: 9 mm
Height: 23 mm
Width: 20 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
Sixth-Fifth centuries B.C.
Circa
-0600
BC
-
Circa
-0401
BC
Intaglio
Accession number: CG 19
Primary reference Number: 124093
Gem catalogue number: E.0.36
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Scaraboid" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/124093 Accessed: 2023-06-03 00:09:34
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/124093
|title=Scaraboid
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 00:09:34|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-124093
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