Gem

Scarab

Seal (Object)

29-128-871

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-871
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 4th-3rd c. BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Tarquinius Superbus | Sage | Human Head
Description

Sommerville: Sard. Tarquinius, the Superb, discovering a human head on the occasion of the foundation-work at the Capitoleum. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case CCC.

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. Scarab. (Unmounted) Three sages performing an act of divination over a human head which emerges from the ground at their feet. Cable border. Representation of some Etruscan ritual legend. Italo-Etruscan

Height 1.6 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 871 - Sommerville Gem Number

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