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Accession_Number 2007.10.2.298
Shape Gem cast
Shape_description Oval
Material Plaster
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Naked male figure seated and playing a lyre. The figure is surrounded by armour and weaponry: a helmet to his left, a shield with a face at its centre at his feet to the right, and a sword hanging from some kind of frame or resting against it. The figure is possibly identified as Achilles as he was found by the embassy from Agamemnon at the beginning of book IX of Homer's Iliad.
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Condition Intact
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Image

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Front view of a gem cast showing a naked male figure seated and playing a lyre.
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Beazley_DB
Height
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Handle_height
Other_dims. L. 2.5; 2.1
Location 10.2
Edited_by Guja and Matt
Date_edited 14.01.09
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