Lot 67 | A GREEK LATE HELLENISTIC GARNET INTAGLIO. FRONTAL FACE OF ZEUS AMMON.

Bertolami Fine Art - Piazza Lovatelli 1, 00186 Roma

A GREEK LATE HELLENISTIC GARNET INTAGLIO. FRONTAL FACE OF ZEUS AMMON.

A GREEK LATE HELLENISTIC GARNET INTAGLIO. FRONTAL FACE OF ZEUS AMMON.

2nd century B.C.

13,5x15x6 mm

Interesting example of late Hellenistic Greek portrait with a deeply carved, almost frontal head of Zeus Ammon (ram's horns) on the typical slightly convex garnet ( concave in the backside). Small missing on the edge and wear marks.

D. Plantzos, Hellenistic Engraved Gems, n. 191 (from Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1892.1508).

Provenance: Formerly in the D.C. collection, London; acquired by an international french collector from the above in the early 2000s.