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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa -1100 - circa -1000; Classification(s): engraved gems, sealstone, intaglio cutting; Acquisition: given by The Trustees of the Wellcome Institute [CG 1065]
Description: Devices on the broad sides: (a) man advancing towards altar holding indistinct object (branch or rhyton?); (b) goddess with raised arms standing frontally wearing elaborate flounced dress, palm-frond(?) in field. Devices on narrow sides: © star and crescent; (d) palm-frond. the goddess of side (b) shows ancient recutting, with symbols or attributes erased by scratching the surface beside her left hand and above her right arm; her right arm (originally bent, with the hand to the breast) has also been recut in antiquity to change the goddess into her present hieratic pose; possibly originally also framed by lines. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sealstone engraved gems Unknown | Temporal: | name=eleventh century B.C.; start=-1100; end=-1000 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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