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.
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
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.77
Christie's, London: 1839-1687
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): 57
