Description: HORTENTIUS [QUINTUS HORTENSIUS HORTALUS, 114 BC TO 50 BC]
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΥ
Signature: APOLLONIOS
Last Recorded Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 22.139.42
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IX.2.11
Christie's, London: 1839-1825
Comments: RECORDED AS LATE REPUBLICAN OR EARLY IMPERIAL GARNET, POSSIBLY SHOWING MAECENAS. HERE THE PONIATOWSKI ENGRAVER IS COPYING THE WELL-KNOWN BUST SIGNED Q.HORTENSIVS.
