Description: PYRENE DEVOURED BY WILD BEASTS [A LION AND A PANTHER, THE SNAKE SHE HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO AFTER BEING RAPED BY HERCULES IN THE TREE BEHIND HER]
Inscription Greek: ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ
Signature: Dioskourides
Last Recorded Collection: 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): 648
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.245
