T694, MENAECEUS [MENECEUS, KING OF THEBES, THE LAST OF THE RACE OF CADMUS] SLAYING HIMSELF TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY [BEFORE THE STATUE OF MARS, IN FRONT OF WHICH INCENSE IS BURNING ON A TRIPOD]
Description: MENAECEUS [MENECEUS, KING OF THEBES, THE LAST OF THE RACE OF CADMUS] SLAYING HIMSELF TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY [BEFORE THE STATUE OF MARS, IN FRONT OF WHICH INCENSE IS BURNING ON A TRIPOD]
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΔΟΥ
Signature: Apollonides
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.298
Christie's, London: 1839-1105
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): 694
