Description: VENUS TRANSFORMING THE CERASTES, THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS, TO BULLS, FOR IMMOLATING HUMAN VICTIMS
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Literary Source Record: Ovid, Metam.
Last Recorded Collection: 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): 116
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.174
Christie's, London: 1839-1234
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