Loading
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.
Show lessRead more
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
Additional Items
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.