The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Banded agate ring stone

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Banded agate ring stone

Period:: Hellenistic
Date:: 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Culture:: Italic
Medium:: Agate, banded
Dimensions:: L. 1.3 cm
Classification:: Gems
Credit Line:: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881
Accession Number:: 81.6.30

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Warrior consulting an oracle
References

Richter, G.M.A. 2006: 2nd Edition. Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, no. 227, p. 56, pl. 34.
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