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Scarab (Side A, main view)
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Scarab gem engraved with the image of Herakles and the lion. Herakles is kneeling with his legs together, throttling the lion whose jaws are gaping as it claws at Herkales' head with a rear paw. Beneath the lion a bud rises from the cross-hatched exergue. Framed by a hatched border.
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Details
- Title: Scarab (Side A, main view)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: early 5th century B.C.
- Location Created: Eastern Mediterranean
- Physical Dimensions: 0.8 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm (5/16 × 1/2 × 7/16 in.)
- Type: Scarab
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Dark green jasper
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AN.76.115
- Culture: Greco-Phoenician or Punic
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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