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Scaraboid with High Domed Back and Gold Collar (3/91)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Unbearded hero in a short tunic fighting a lion; he holds the lion's head with his left hand and a sword in his right; star and disc in crescent above; thick groundline.
The gold collar has eight S-shaped filigree spirals, rows of granulation, and pyramidal clusters of granulation around the rims of the string holes. The gold work is worn.
Details
- Title: Scaraboid with High Domed Back and Gold Collar (3/91)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 6th century B.C.
- Physical Dimensions: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm (7/8 × 11/16 × 7/16 in.)
- Type: Gem
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Scaraboid: mottled white/gray/orange agate; collar: gold
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 83.AN.437.7
- Culture: Near Eastern (Syro-Phoenician?)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Damon Mezzacappa and Jonathan H. Kagan
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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