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Historical Archive: Intaglios, 6th century BCE through undated Roman

"Undated" includes intaglios that may have been dated by other scholars, for which I have not yet found the date.
I welcome information about such works.
If you need an image that is not yet digitized, feel free to contact me and I will prioritize the requested object.


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hybrid figure, chalcedony intaglio, Late Archaic Greek c.500 BCE, Fitz. CG 518. This work has its own page.
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Etruscan carnelian centaur intaglio, late 4th-3rd c. BCE, in ?13th c. gold seal matrix, HNM K.16.1871.7, which has its own page with scarab reverse
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bead with thunderbolt, rock crystal, Tiritaka/Charax (north Black Sea area, c.4th c. BCE-3rd c. CE), Pushkin KB33 no.546. For another view see Pushkin.
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Ajax drags Cassandra from the Palladion, banded agate intaglio, 3rd-2nd c. BCE Etrusco-Italic, p.c., access courtesy of Hadrien Rambach
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Egyptian gods, unfinished chalcedony quader, Hellenistic, prob. 2nd c. BCE, AS 2009,6. This object has its own page.
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woman bathing at a fountain and column, agate intaglio, 2nd-1st c. BCE Italic, on Enger cross c.1100, KGM 88,635. The cross has its own page.
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Medusa, 1st c. BCE/CE, red jasper intaglio, Florence MA Migliarini 1745. For modern impression see Florence MA.
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conch shell and inscription, 1st c. BCE/CE or 2nd c., red jasper intaglio, Florence MA 1731. For modern impression see Florence MA.
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prase triton intaglio, 2nd half of 1st c. BCE, HNM K.16.1871.7, which has its own page
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Minerva, 25-1 BCE, sardonyx, Florence MA 14841. For modern impression see Florence MA.
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2 cattle, green plasma intaglio (chalcedony), late 1st c. BCE-mid 1st c. CE, MStA. For other views see MStA.
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bird striding left, Roman gem on Merovingian ring from Maastricht, City of Maastricht
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bird striding left, Roman gem on Merovingian ring from Maastricht, City of Maastricht
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boy with pan pipe, Roman? rock crystal intaglio, Detroit Institute of Arts
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crows, Roman rock crystal intaglio in silver mount, CdM Chab. 1991
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gold pendant with Roman carnelian Fortuna intaglio from Kirchheim am Ries grave 326, mid-7th c., WLM F70/269 326 (4)
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lion, Roman sard, Met 81.6.132
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lion, detail, Roman sard, Met 81.6.132
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Roman intaglio of Mars on Merovingian quatrefoil fibula from Heilbronn, 6th-7th c., WLM A1168
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Merovingian quatrefoil fibula with Roman intaglio of Mars, from Heilbronn, 6th-7th c., WLM A1168
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Medusa, Roman crystal, Met 81.6.119
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Medusa, Roman crystal, Met 81.6.119
Minerva-Tritonia profile bust, Roman crystal, BN Chab. 1502
(Not yet digitized)
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Oedipus and the Sphinx, Roman niccolo agate on the Enger Reliquary, late 8th c., KGM
Omphale, bust, in lion skin, Roman agate, BN Chab. 1782
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Omphale, bust, in lion skin, Roman carnelian intaglio, CdM Chab. 1780
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Omphale, bust: modern impression, CdM Chab. 1780
Omphale, bust, in lion skin, Roman carnelian, BN Chab. 1781
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Omphale, bust, in lion skin, Roman carnelian, BN Chab. 1783
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Omphale, bust, in lion skin, Roman sardonyx, BN Chab. 1779
(Not yet digitized)
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satyr with grapes, Roman niccolo agate on the Enger Reliquary, late 8th c., KGM
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satyr with pan pipes, Roman crystal panel, Rouen Musée des Antiquités 761
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gold pendant with Roman agate satyr intaglio from Kirchheim am Ries grave 326, mid-7th c., WLM F 70/269 326 (22)
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ant, imperial Roman amethyst intaglio, Christian inscription IXΘ later, Bologna GL 281
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Roman gems on Ste. Foi reliquary, Conques, which has its own page
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tree with bird, Christian? sard, BM, Dalton 532
St Peter, Early Christian chalcedony in ring, BM, Dalton 518, OM 6502
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two figures with cross, Early Christian CdM
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