1839-2070, ENNIUS [QUINTUS ENNIUS (239-169 B.C.), THE FOUNDER OF ROMAN LITERATURE, WAS AN EPIC POET, DRAMATIST, AND SATIRIST. HIS EPIC ANNALES, THE STORY OF ROME FROM AENEAS UNTIL ENNIUS' DAY, WAS THE NATIONAL EPIC UNTIL VERGIL'S AENEID REPLACED IT.]
Description: ENNIUS [QUINTUS ENNIUS (239-169 B.C.), THE FOUNDER OF ROMAN LITERATURE, WAS AN EPIC POET, DRAMATIST, AND SATIRIST. HIS EPIC ANNALES, THE STORY OF ROME FROM AENEAS UNTIL ENNIUS' DAY, WAS THE NATIONAL EPIC UNTIL VERGIL'S AENEID REPLACED IT.]
Inscription Greek: ΥΛΛΟΥ
Signature: HYLLOS
Last Recorded Collection: Christie's, London: 1839-2070
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IX.3.22
