2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GREEN STONE INTAGLIO OF A HARVESTER CUTTING CORN
2ND CENTURY A.D.
With figure of harvester bent over, in one hand he holds two ears of corn about to cut them with the sickle in his other hand, three ears of corn in front, on groundline, 0.7 x 0.8 cm., 1.9 cm. across inner hoop; and a Roman green glass intaglio with a sacro-idyllic scene of a herdsman and grazing cow under a tree, 1st Century A.D., 1.1 x 0.8 cm., 2.3 cm. across inner hoop, both in later ring settings (2)

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Lot Essay

Item one: cf. Henig, Corpus, p. 250, no. 505; and Henig et al., Classical Gems, p. 162, no. 342 for similar.
Item two: cf. Furtwängler, Antiken Gemmen, pl. XXXV, no. 41; and Berry, Ancient Gems, p. 90, no. 163 for similar.

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