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Engraved chalcedony gem, male figure wearing horse heads

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An image of Engraved gems/scaraboid/intaglio. Male figure wearing Egyptian kilt, w. bifurcated neck & horse heads in profile to right and left, with wings and holding snake in each hand. Intaglio cutting, light brown chalcedony, height, 18 mm, width, 14 mm, depth, 2.5 mm, circa 510- circa 490 B.C. Late Archaic Greek, modified. Roman Imperial.

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Engraved gems/scaraboid/intaglio. Male figure wearing Egyptian kilt, w. bifurcated neck & horse heads in profile to right and left, with wings and holding snake in each hand. Intaglio cutting, light brown chalcedony, height, 18 mm, width, 14 mm, depth, 2.5 mm, circa 510- circa 490 B.C. Late Archaic Greek, modified. Roman Imperial.

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  • Accession Number: CG 47
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 54.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2014:05:02 16:18:33

Key words

5th Century 6th Century antiquity BC bifurcated chalcedony Egyptian engraved gem finger ring Fitz_ANT gem gemstones Greek heads horses incised intaglio intaglio cutting jewellery jewelry kilt Late Antique Period Late Antiquity lemon (colour) male pale yellow ring ringstone Roman Roman Imperial scaraboid serpent skirt snake tartan winged wings yellow

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rgb(246,241,226), rgb(202,171,122), rgb(100,84,56), rgb(144,123,84), rgb(222,202,172), rgb(243,224,176), rgb(145,117,57), rgb(126,98,62), rgb(239,204,132), rgb(165,130,82), rgb(180,148,80)

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