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Scaraboid with High Domed Back and Gold Collar

Date

6th century B.C.

Medium

Scaraboid: mottled white/gray/orange agate; collar: gold

Culture

Near Eastern (Syro-Phoenician?)

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

Unbearded hero in a short tunic fighting a lion; he holds the lion's head with his left hand and a sword in his right; star and disc in crescent above; thick groundline. The gold collar has eight S-shaped filigree spirals, rows of granulation, and pyramidal clusters of granulation around the rims of the string holes. The gold work is worn.

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