T51, JUPITER APPEARING AS A FLAME OF FIRE TO AEGINA. JUPITER, TO OBTAIN THE FAVOURS OF AEGINA, DAUGHTER OF THE RIVER ASOPUS, CHANGED HIMSELF TO A FLAME OF FIRE, AND MADE THE NYMPH THE MOTHER OF AECUS, WHO WAS THE FATHER OF TELAMON
Description: JUPITER APPEARING AS A FLAME OF FIRE TO AEGINA. JUPITER, TO OBTAIN THE FAVOURS OF AEGINA, DAUGHTER OF THE RIVER ASOPUS, CHANGED HIMSELF TO A FLAME OF FIRE, AND MADE THE NYMPH THE MOTHER OF AECUS, WHO WAS THE FATHER OF TELAMON
Inscription Greek: ΠΟΛΥΚΛΕΙΤΟΥ
Signature: Polyklet
Literary Source Record: Ovid, Metam.
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.71
Christie's, London: 1839
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): 51
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