T735, ABARIS RECEIVING THE ARROW FROM APOLLO [PRIEST OF APOLLO WHO, WITH THE HELP OF THAT GOD, FLED FROM SCYTHIA (IN THE CAUCASUS) TO GREECE TO AVOID A PLAGUE. APOLLO GAVE HIM A GOLDEN ARROW WHICH CURED DISEASES AND SPOKE ORACLES. THE ARROW ALSO RENDERED THE PRIEST INVISIBLE AND MADE HIM RIDE THROUGH THE SKY.]
Description: ABARIS RECEIVING THE ARROW FROM APOLLO [PRIEST OF APOLLO WHO, WITH THE HELP OF THAT GOD, FLED FROM SCYTHIA (IN THE CAUCASUS) TO GREECE TO AVOID A PLAGUE. APOLLO GAVE HIM A GOLDEN ARROW WHICH CURED DISEASES AND SPOKE ORACLES. THE ARROW ALSO RENDERED THE PRIEST INVISIBLE AND MADE HIM RIDE THROUGH THE SKY.]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Literary Source Record: Herodotus Pindar
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.340
Christie's, London: 1839-1343
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): 735
Monson, (Lord)
Christie's, London: June 9, 1851, lot 163
Sotheby's, London: November 1852; lot 157
Sharp, (Samuel)
Sotheby's, London: 5 April 1883: lot 40
Antichità Alberto Di Castro, Rome
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