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  • Intaglio gem
  • Cornelian
  • 12mm high, 9mm wide, 2mm thick
  • Etched in the oval of red carnelian is a finely-detailed eagle, three-quarters out to the right with folded wings and tail fanned. It perches upon a rounded altar, head turned back to the left, a laurel wreathborne in its protruding beak. A crescent moon hangs upturned beneath the wreath, paired with an eight-pointed star to the upper right, beneath which floats a sceptre bound with a ribbon.
  • good
  • Sena Chiesa 1966, gem 1259; Henig 1974, 689-91.

Record Details

  • VM_5289
    • Black burn layer under 5285 and over road in W half of trench
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    • Joey Castellano