Devices on the broad sides: (a) man advancing towards altar holding indistinct object (branch or rhyton?); (b) goddess with raised arms standing frontally wearing elaborate flounced dress, palm-frond(?) in field. Devices on narrow sides: © star and crescent; (d) palm-frond. the goddess of side (b) shows ancient recutting, with symbols or attributes erased by scratching the surface beside her left hand and above her right arm; her right arm (originally bent, with the hand to the breast) has also been recut in antiquity to change the goddess into her present hieratic pose; possibly originally also framed by lines.
History note: Given by the trustees of the Wellcome Institute
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28.5
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Method of acquisition: Given by Wellcome Institute, the trustees of the
11th Century BC
Circa
-1100
-
Circa
-1000
Intaglio
Accession number: CG 1065
Primary reference Number: 124865
Gem catalogue number: E.7.1982
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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