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Description: | A blue glass intaglio from a Roman finger ring.Martin Henig reports:The intaglio is cast in glass resembling nicolo (blue onyx). This nicolo-glass intaglio shows a huntsman, here depicted nude with one arm raised above his head the other holding a bunch of grapes [in such gems huntsmen are often confused or conflated with satyrs who are of course associated with Bacchus). Lets call him then a huntsman-satyr. He is being greeted by his hound. There is a very close match in H.Guiraud, intailles et camees de l'epoque romaine en Gaule, 48e supp a GALLIA (Paris 1988) p.157 pl.xli no.593 from La Rochefoucauld (Charente). Compare from Britain a cornelian intaglio from Castleford, Yorks (M.Henig in H.E.M.Cool and C.Philo, Roman Castleford I The Small Finds (Wakefield 1998) pp.23-24 pl.1 and of course my Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites (BAR 8, 3rd edn 2007) nos 158,159,170 also Ziekiewicz in Legionary Fortress Baths at Caerleon p.131 no.16
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