Asset ID:
10947
CMS Object ID:
479845
Accession Number:
AN1966.1808
Title:
Felix gem with scenes from the Trojan Wars, Diomedes, and Odysseus
Object Name:
gem
Object dating:
1st half of the 1st century AD
Associated place(s):
Italy (place of creation) ; Rome (place of creation)
Dimensions:
3.5 cm (length) ; 2.65 cm (width) ; 3.22 g (weight)
Materials/ techniques:
sardonyx, engraved
Responsible department:
Antiquities
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- act
- ad
- altar
- archive
- arm
- artist
- arundel
- ashmolean
- association
- athena
- background
- bearded
- bearing
- beazley
- beneath
- between
- block
- cabinet
- calpurnius
- centre
- cloak
- collectors
- column
- court
- cult
- cutter
- dead
- decoration
- description
- device
- diomedes
- dress
- earl
- edges
- emperor
- engraved
- european
- example
- feet
- felix
- figure
- gate
- gem
- gem-cutter
- gems
- gestures
- gods
- greece
- greek
- greeks
- ground
- guard
- hero
- home
- horror
- howard
- identifying
- inscription
- inscriptions
- intaglio
- intaglios
- journey
- killed
- line
- mark
- member
- members
- name
- nobility
- odysseus
- official
- order
- original
- oval
- owner
- palladion
- palladium
- part
- phrase
- pillar
- poseidon
- possession
- priest
- procession
- prominent
- prophesy
- return
- right
- roman
- rounded
- sacrilege
- sardonyx
- scabbard
- scene
- sealstones
- severus
- shoulder
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- statue
- subjects
- sword
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- walls
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- warriors
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- wax
- wreathed
- 10
- 000
- εποιε
- αλπ
- σεουε
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