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Title:Chalcedony oval gem
Period:Hellenistic
Date:2nd century BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Chalcedony, blue
Dimensions:H.: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
Classification:Gems
Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942
Object Number:42.11.26
“Found at Amisos” (Evans 1938, no. 63)
Said to have been found at Amisos, modern Eski Samsoun, in the Pontic region of Turkey; from before 1938 and until 1941, collection of Sir Arthur J. Evans (1851-1941), Oxford; acquired in 1942, purchased from the estate of Sir Arthur J. Evans.
Evans, Arthur J. 1938. An Illustrative Selection of Greek and Greco-Roman Gems to which is Added a Minoan and Proto-Hellenic Series. pl. IV, no. 63, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1942. Ancient Gems from the Evans and Beatty Collection. no. 44, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 150 note 66; p. 286, pl. 126m, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1956. Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. no. 148, p. 38, pl. 25, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Plantzos, Dimitris. 1997. Hellenistic Engraved Gems. no. 97, p. 116, New York: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 2006[1956]. Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, 2nd edn. no. 148, p. 38, pl. 25, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 225, pp. 191, 449–50, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hemingway, Seán. 2021. How to Read Greek Sculpture. pp. 37–38, fig. 23, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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