T64, ORIGIN OF THE WORSHIP OF JUPITER AMMON [JUPITER, UNDER THE FORM OF A GOAT, CONDUCTING BACCHUS TO A FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERTS OF LYBIA, ON WHICH SPOT BACCHUS AFTERWARDS ERECTED A TEMPLE TO JUPITER AMMON]
Description: ORIGIN OF THE WORSHIP OF JUPITER AMMON [JUPITER, UNDER THE FORM OF A GOAT, CONDUCTING BACCHUS TO A FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERTS OF LYBIA, ON WHICH SPOT BACCHUS AFTERWARDS ERECTED A TEMPLE TO JUPITER AMMON]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Literary Source Record: Apoll. Rh.
Last Recorded Collection: British Museum, London: BM MLA 1945, 7-3, 3.Given by Miss F. J. Lefroy
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.88
Christie's, London: 1839-1380
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): 64
Rudoe, J. 'The faking of gems in the eighteenth century' in: Why Fakes Matter (1992): p. 30, no. 9
