T199, THIS STONE REPRESENTS CENCHREUS LIFELESS, AND NEAR HIM HIS MOTHER WEEPING. SHE SHED SO MANY TEARS THAT SHE WAS CHANGED TO A FOUNTAIN. CORRIGENDA: PYRENE WEEPING OVER THE DEAD BODY OF CENCHREUS [CENCHREA?]
Description: THIS STONE REPRESENTS CENCHREUS LIFELESS, AND NEAR HIM HIS MOTHER WEEPING. SHE SHED SO MANY TEARS THAT SHE WAS CHANGED TO A FOUNTAIN. CORRIGENDA: PYRENE WEEPING OVER THE DEAD BODY OF CENCHREUS [CENCHREA?]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Literary Source Record: Euripides, Medea Pope
Last Recorded Collection: Sotheby's, London: 5 April 1883: lot 51
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.310
Christie's, London: 1839-933
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): 199
Sharp, (Samuel)
Comments: CHRISTIE'S: SARDONYX
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