T700, THE INFANT CAECULUS [SON OF VULCAN, CONCEIVED WHEN A SPARK OF FIRE FROM THE HEARTH FELL INTO HIS MOTHER'S LAP, EXPOSED BY HER NEAR THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER] FOUND IN THE FIRE BY SHEPHERDS. [CAECULUS WAS THE FOUNDER OF PRAENESTE]
Description: THE INFANT CAECULUS [SON OF VULCAN, CONCEIVED WHEN A SPARK OF FIRE FROM THE HEARTH FELL INTO HIS MOTHER'S LAP, EXPOSED BY HER NEAR THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER] FOUND IN THE FIRE BY SHEPHERDS. [CAECULUS WAS THE FOUNDER OF PRAENESTE]
Inscription Greek: ΚΡΟΜΟΥ
Signature: KROMOS
Literary Source Record: Aeneid
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): 700
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.305
