Scaraboid gem with a horse
450–425 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueChalcedony
DimensionsLength: 20 mm (13/16 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number27.698
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1895: with Edward Perry Warren (according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 67: Bought in 1895 from Hartwig. Formerly in the Postolakka collection at Athens, according to Imhoof-Blumer. Hartwig had it from Rhousopoulos, who said that it came from Messenia.); April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 68.26); 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)
475–400 B.C.
480–450 B.C.
450–400 B.C.
mid 5th century B.C.
about 500 B.C.
550–331 B.C.
2nd century A.D.
Late 5th–early 4th century B.C.
500–331 B.C.