T57, IO TRACING HER NAME ON THE SAND BESIDE THE RIVER GOD INACHUS. CORRIGENDA: IO, TORMENTED BY AN INSECT SENT BY JUNO, LEADS A WANDERING LIFE. AFTER HAVING TRAVERSED THRACE AND SCYTHIA, CROSSED THE IONIAN SEA AND THE BOSPHOROS, SHE REACHES THE BANKS OF THE RIVER INACHUS; AND TRACING HER NAME ON THE SAND WITH HER HOOF, IS RECOGNISED BY HER FATHER.
- Reference Number: T57
- Description: IO TRACING HER NAME ON THE SAND BESIDE THE RIVER GOD INACHUS. CORRIGENDA: IO, TORMENTED BY AN INSECT SENT BY JUNO, LEADS A WANDERING LIFE. AFTER HAVING TRAVERSED THRACE AND SCYTHIA, CROSSED THE IONIAN SEA AND THE BOSPHOROS, SHE REACHES THE BANKS OF THE RIVER INACHUS; AND TRACING HER NAME ON THE SAND WITH HER HOOF, IS RECOGNISED BY HER FATHER.
- Inscription Greek: ΚΡΟΜΟΥ
- Signature: Kromos
- Literary Source Record: Aeschylus, Prometheus
- Current Collection: Unknown
- 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: Chalcedony
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