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ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Lentoid Gem with a Lion

Place CreatedGreece

PeriodArchaic

Dateca. late 7th Century - early 6th Century BCE

MediumSerpentine

Credit LineGift of Sally and Joe Gladden in honor of William Size, 2022 Woolford B. Baker Service Award recipient

DimensionsMaximum: 9/16 × 5/8 × 1/8 in. (1.4 × 1.6 × 0.3 cm)

Object number2024.005.001

Published ReferencesSotheby London, Catalogue of Greek, Minoan, Roman and Egyptian Antiquities (1-2 July 1957), 15, lot 81 (part).
John Boardman, Island Gems: A Study of Greek Seals in the Geometric and Early Archaic Periods (London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1963), 34, no. 68, pl. III.
John Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical (London: Thames & Hudson, 1970), 120, 135, pl. 228.
Sotheby's London, Egyptian Scarabs, Middle Eastern Cylinder Seals and Classical Gemstones (11th July 1977), 18, plate III, lot 79.
Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich, Auktion XXV (25. und 26. November 1991), lot 681.
G. Max Bernheimer, Ancient Gems from the Borowski Collection (Rutzen: Ruhpolding, 2007), 34, no. EG-3.

ProvenanceEx coll. Richard M. Dawkins (1871-1955), Greece and United Kingdom. Thence by descent. With K. John Hewett (1919-1994), London, England, purchased from Sotheby & Co. London, July 1, 1957, lot 81 (part). Ex coll Joseph Bard (1892-1975), London England, by 1970. Thence by descent. With Sotheby's London, July 11, 1977, lot 79. With Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich, 25-26 November 1991, lot 681. Ex coll. Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Toronto, Ontario and Jerusalem. Thence by descent. Ex private collection, New York, New York, purchased from Borowski family, 2011. Purchased by MCCM from Christie's New York.

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