Description: BUST OF THE ATHENA PARTHENOS IN PROFILE WITH PEARL NECKLACE, AEGIS AND HELMET. THE HELMET IS DECORATED WITH A SPHINX, A GRIFFIN AND FOUR HORSES.
Inscription Greek: ΑΣΠΑΣΙΟΥ
Signature: Aspasios
Last Recorded Collection: Tassie, J.; Raspe, R.E.: A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems,... (1791): 125,NO.1536,TRAY 25.1, 25.3
Previous Collections:
Winckelmann, J.J.: Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch (1760): 61
Ottoboni, Cardinal
Stosch, P.: Gemae Antiquae Caelatae (Pierres antiques gravees) (1724): PL.13
Imperial Cabinet, Vienna
Size: 39x34
Comments: Brought to Italy as part of the Versaille treaty (reparations): VIII. Teil. Wiedergutmachungen; Anlage I. Toskana: '... die Gemme des Aspasios (auf Rechnung von Schulden des Hauses Österreich an die Krone Toskana).'
