ANCIENT JEWELLERY & SEAL RINGS HAMMER AUCTION 17 JUNE 2025 | Jun 17, 2025
Lot 17
A HELLENISTIC INTAGLIO OF HERAKLES, 2ND CENTURY B.C. A HELLENISTIC INTAGLIO OF HERAKLES, 2ND CENTURY B.C. A HELLENISTIC INTAGLIO OF HERAKLES, 2ND CENTURY B.C. A HELLENISTIC INTAGLIO OF HERAKLES, 2ND CENTURY B.C.

Lot 17 A HELLENISTIC INTAGLIO OF HERAKLES, 2ND CENTURY B.C.

Reference: ART600659

A large garnet intaglio showing Heracles walking to the right holding his club and lion skin on his left arm. A flying putto rests on his right shoulder. While the association of Hercules with putti often appears in later art here we have an example from antiquity. The oblong shape of this intaglio is encountered in in Hellenistic times till the early first century AD. Garnet 2nd c.BC.
28 by 15 mm.

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