132, Hephaistos' workshop. He is kneeling on a cut tree, naked but for a skin cap, with raised hammer. He holds an object (corselet?) with tongs on a low round anvil decorated with swags, while four naked youths also beat with hammers, and a bearded man with a skin cap also raises a hammer, while holding the object steady and working a foot-bellows? Below, implements - hammer, tongs. Above, a crescent within crescents. Ground line.
Description: Hephaistos' workshop. He is kneeling on a cut tree, naked but for a skin cap, with raised hammer. He holds an object (corselet?) with tongs on a low round anvil decorated with swags, while four naked youths also beat with hammers, and a bearded man with a skin cap also raises a hammer, while holding the object steady and working a foot-bellows? Below, implements - hammer, tongs. Above, a crescent within crescents. Ground line.
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 78
Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 132
