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Scarab

Date

early 5th century B.C.

Medium

Dark green jasper

Culture

Greco-Phoenician or Punic

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

Scarab gem engraved with the image of a warrior with an old man. The warrior wears a Corinthian helmet and a corselet marked vertically and across the waist. He threatens the old man with a sword as his left hand is clenched over the victim's head, as if holding his hair. The old man is bearded, apparently naked, and raising his left arm in supplication, with his palm out, as his raised right hands holds onto the warrior's raised arm. Above him a trident sign. This is perhaps a scene of Neoptolemos slaying Priam, or the Hellenization of an Eastern scene. Framed by a hatched border.

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