T1015, ULYSSES AND HIS COMPANIONS ESCAPING FROM THE CAVE OF POLYPHEMUS [WHO, AT THE MOUTH OF THE CAVERN, PASSES HIS HANDS OVER THE BACKS OF TWO SHEEP, UNDER WHICH ULYSSES AND ONE OF HIS COMPANIONS ARE CONCEALED]
- Reference Number: T1015
- Description: ULYSSES AND HIS COMPANIONS ESCAPING FROM THE CAVE OF POLYPHEMUS [WHO, AT THE MOUTH OF THE CAVERN, PASSES HIS HANDS OVER THE BACKS OF TWO SHEEP, UNDER WHICH ULYSSES AND ONE OF HIS COMPANIONS ARE CONCEALED]
- Inscription Greek: ΑΘΕΝΙΟΝ ΕΠΟ.
- Signature: Athenion
- Literary Source Record: Homer, Odyss.
- Current Collection: Unknown
- Previous Collections:
- Calandrelli drawing, Antikensammlung Berlin
- Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
- Daktyliothek Poniatowski 1832, Antikensammlung Berlin
- 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)
- Platz-Horster,G.: L'antica maniera. Zeichnungen und Gemmen des Giovanni Calandrelli in der Antikensammlung Berlin (2005)
- Monson, (Lord)
- Christie's, London
- Material: Cornelian
- Comments: Several of the Monson gems appear in the 1851 and the 1854 sale. They probably didn't sell the first time. Monson 2 has the wrong signature (Gnaios).
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