Friday, November 22, 2024
The London Satyr Gem
Late 6th century BC agate scarab from Etruria, showing a satyr holding a drinking cup, now in the British Museum (object reference number 1865,0712.106, gem number 465), images from
John Boardman, "Three Greek Gem Masters,"
Burlington Magazine, Vol. 111, No. 799 (October, 1969) 587-596 (at 589):
For me these images are easier to view than the one on the British Museum's web site.
Is the satyr reclining or dancing (rotate 90 degrees)? Probably the former — see Gisela M.A. Richter, Engraved Gems of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, Part One: Engraved Gems of the Greeks and Etruscans (London: Phaidon, 1968), p. 53, number 111, and John Boardman, Greek Gems amd Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical (New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1972]), p. 181 with plate 301.
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Is the satyr reclining or dancing (rotate 90 degrees)? Probably the former — see Gisela M.A. Richter, Engraved Gems of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, Part One: Engraved Gems of the Greeks and Etruscans (London: Phaidon, 1968), p. 53, number 111, and John Boardman, Greek Gems amd Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical (New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1972]), p. 181 with plate 301.
