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?]
- Reference Number: T199
- 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 - Current Collection: Sotheby's, London
- 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)
- Sharp, (Samuel)
- Material: Cornelian
- Comments: CHRISTIE'S: SARDONYX
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