Gem
Scarab
Seal (Object)
| Object Number: | 29-128-542 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Etruscan Italo-Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location: | South Italy |
| Period: | Late Etruscan |
| Date Made: | 5th c. BCE |
| Early Date: | -500 |
| Late Date: | -400 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Carnelian Sardonyx |
| Technique: | Intaglio |
| Iconography: | Charioteer Quadriga Dog? Lion? |
| Length: | 1.9 cm |
| Width: | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 542 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Sommerville: Sard. An Etruscan Scarabeus. A charioteer. Etruscan Seals, Scarabei, Intaglios, and Rings, Case FF.
Vermeule: Intaglio. Carnelian. Scarab. Unmounted. Charioteer diriving a quadriga of horses to the right. A dog or a lion appears beneath it. Cable border. Globular style, perhaps based on a South Italian or Sicilian Greek coin. Late Etruscan or Italo-Etruscan.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 152-153, no. 116; p. C4, pl. 12 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Berges, Dietrich K. 2002. Antike Siegel und Glasgemmen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville: im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Mainz am Rhein. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. pg. 78 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 23, no. 13; taf. II; taf. 4 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 17, no. 24 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art.. Maxwell Sommerville. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 702, no. 542, pl. 45 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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