Description: DANAE SUPPLICATING ACRISIUS [WHO IS POINTING TO THE INFANT PERSEUS, TO APPEASE THE ANGER OF THE KING OF ARGOS]
Inscription Greek: ΠΥΡΓΟΤΕΛΕΣ
Signature: Pyrgoteles
Current Collection: London, Market
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
Christie's, London
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)
Material: Sardonyx
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