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T44, JUPITER AS A BULL CROSSING THE SEA WITH EUROPA ON HIS BACK, AND NEAR HIM AN EAGLE

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  • Record Number: 40000073
  • Sub-database: Poniatowski
  • Reference Number: T44
  • Material of Original Gem: Sardonyx
  • Description: JUPITER AS A BULL CROSSING THE SEA WITH EUROPA ON HIS BACK, AND NEAR HIM AN EAGLE
  • Inscription Greek: ΚΡΟΜΟΥ
  • Signature: Kromos
  • Literary Source Record: Anacreon
    Moschus
    Ovid, Metam.
  • Last Recorded Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 20.80.2/45799
  • Previous Collections:
    • Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.63
    • Christie's, London: 1839-792
    • Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841): 44
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