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Chalcedony oval

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Chalcedony oval

Period:: Hellenistic
Date:: 2nd century B.C.
Culture:: Greek
Medium:: Chalcedony, blue
Dimensions:: H.: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
Classification:: Gems
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942
Accession Number:: 42.11.26

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 163

Description

female portrait head, possibly queen Laodike, wife of Mithradates IV of Pontos
Provenance

Said to be from Amisos (modern Eski Samsoun) in the Pontic region of Turkey
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When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
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Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
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