Sliced-barrel seal with a lioness
450–400 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueAgate
DimensionsLength: 28 mm (1 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number27.694
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSeals
Collections
ProvenanceBy about 1895: with Edward Perry Warren (according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 65: Bought about 1895. Formerly in the possession of a priest at Taranto. Furtwängler, pl. 9, 59 [once Evans' Coll.].); April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 73.26); November 17, 1927: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 161,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 27.647-27.761)
about 1635–1410 B.C.
about 1480–1315 B.C.
about 1470–1370 B.C.
about 1800–1410 B.C.
mid to late 5th century B.C.
450–400 B.C.
743–712 B.C.
883–612 B.C.
after 323 B.C.
A.D. 226–651
A.D. 226–651