Description: ZEUS, WITH THUNDERBOLT AND SPEAR, IN A QUADRIGA RIDING OVER TWO SNAKE-LEGGED GIANTS, ONE ARMED WITH A CLUB; GROUND BENEATH THE CHARIOT WHEELS.
Last Recorded Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore: 42.1058
Previous Collections:
Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 15
Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 598
Shape: CAMEO
Size: 42X33
Comments: 18TH-CENTURY COPY OF THE CAMEO IN NAPLES SIGNED BY ATHENION. SET IN GOLD AS A PENDANT
