T963, DEATH OF AGAMEMNON [HE IS LYING ON A COUCH, AT THE FOOT OF WHICH ARE HIS ARMS SUSPENDED ON A CIPPUS, CLYTEMNESTRA HAS SEIZED HIS HAIR, AND HOLDS A DAGGER IN HER UPLIFTED HAND, HER COUNTENANCE IS TURNED TOWARDS EGISTHEUS, WHO IS URGING HER ON TO THE COMMISSION OF THE CRIME]
Description: DEATH OF AGAMEMNON [HE IS LYING ON A COUCH, AT THE FOOT OF WHICH ARE HIS ARMS SUSPENDED ON A CIPPUS, CLYTEMNESTRA HAS SEIZED HIS HAIR, AND HOLDS A DAGGER IN HER UPLIFTED HAND, HER COUNTENANCE IS TURNED TOWARDS EGISTHEUS, WHO IS URGING HER ON TO THE COMMISSION OF THE CRIME]
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΥ
Signature: APOLLONIDES
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): V.384
Christie's, London: 1839-517
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): 963
