Description: MAGIC GEM: LION HEADED FIGURE HOLDING SNAKE AND EARS OF CORN. SITULA WITH OBJECTS ON GROUNDLINE. GREEK INSCRIPTION.
Last Recorded Collection: Tassie, J.; Raspe, R.E.: A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems,... (1791): 49,NO.533,TRAY 8.2, 8.4
Previous Collections:
Moszynski, (August Fryderyk), commissioner of the Royal Mint, Poland: Dresden
Lippert, Ph.D.: Dactyliothecae universalis... (1755, 1756, 1752): I. 897