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Accession_Number 2007.9.2.28
Shape Gem cast
Shape_description Oval
Material Plaster
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Displays Heracles with curly hair and a beard pulling up from behind him another man by the ankle and hair, who is clutching at a lionskin on the ground. (Box Index = Herakles and Lichas).
Inscriptions
Condition Intact
Technique/Style
Provenance
Period Modern
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2019.05.0031.jpg
Front view of a gem cast showing a heavily muscled, naked man with curly hair and a beard pulling up from behind him another man by the ankle and hair, who is clutching at a lionskin on the ground.
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Beazley_DB
Height 7.4
Diameters 5.9 across at widest
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 10.2
Edited_by Freya (Guja and Matt 03.12.08);Laura
Date_edited 13.9.2007;11.08.2016
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