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Pseudo-scarab with a running girl and head of a satyr on the back
Italic, Etruscan
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–470 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Carnelian
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 0.013 L.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.735
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
DescriptionOrange-red carnelian. Pseudo-scarab with a flat, oval base engraved in intaglio; pierced lengthwise. This gem depicts a victor in the girls' running race. She carries a palm branch, perhaps a symbol of victory, as she lifts the hem of her skirt. Etruscan girls competed in footraces fully clothed, while Greek girls wore a shorter garment that left one breast bare. Back carved as the forepart of a beetle with the elytra replaced with the head of a satyr with a hatched beard. Partial hatched plinth. Chip missing between the front legs of the beetle.
ProvenanceBy 1897, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome [see note 1]; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 260 (bought in Naples); 1898, Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1898, sold by Warren to the MFA for $69,618.13 [note 2]. (Accession Date: September 20, 1898)
Notes:
[1]According to E. P. Warren's records, this was seen in Florence by A. J. Evans before its acquisition by Count Tyszkiewicz.
[2]This is the total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
Notes:
[1]According to E. P. Warren's records, this was seen in Florence by A. J. Evans before its acquisition by Count Tyszkiewicz.
[2]This is the total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.