The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

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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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Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

Period:: Imperial
Date:: 1st–3rd century A.D.
Culture:: Roman
Medium:: Chalcedony
Dimensions:: H.: 3/4 x 9/16 in. (2 x 1.5 cm)
Classification:: Gems
Credit Line:: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881
Accession Number:: 81.6.56

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Description

The pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Zeus Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Chalcedony (2,967)

Gems (1,924)

Intaglios (959)
Where
Roman Empire (5,259)
When
A.D. 1-500 (6,201)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
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Italian Peninsula, 1–500A.D.