ProvenanceSaid to be from Naukratis (Carnegie 1908, p. 27).

 

From at least 1891, collection of the Earl of Southesk; acquired July 20, 1931, purchased from the Earl of Southesk, through Maggs Brothers, London.

Selected BibliographyMiddleton, J. H. 1891. The Engraved Gems of Classical Times, with a Catalogue of Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 25-26, fig. 17.

 

 

The Lewis Collection of Gems and Rings in the Possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1892. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, pp. 27f., fig. 3.

 

 

Furtwängler, A. 1900. Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum. Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, vols. 1 and 2, pl. IX, 23, vol. 3, p. 106.

 

 

Lady Helena Carnegie, ed. 1908. Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems Formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. London: B. Quaritch, vol. 1, pp. 27-28, no. B8, pl. II.

 

 

Beazley, J. D. 1920. The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 21, pl. A, 10.

 

 

Richter, G. M. A. 1931. "A Greek Gem from the Southesk Collection." MMA Bulletin 26: 267-68, ill. p. 257.

 

 

Boardman, J. 1970. Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical. London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 142, 184, pl. 357.

 

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries. New York: E. P. Dutton, p. 122, no. 76, ill.

 

 

Cook, R. M. 1972. Greek Art: Its Development, Character, and Influence. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, p. 168, pl. 69e.

 

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 57, pl. 38.

 

 

Mertens, J. R. 1989. "Timeas's Scarab." Metropolitan Museum Journal 24: 54, figs. 4, 5.