The amethyst preserved in the Archaeological National Museum of Ancona shows Achilles and Penthesilea from the sculpture created at Pergamon in the Middle Hellenistic Period. The context and the pieces associated with the gem into the grave (140 - 120 B.C.) assured that the statuary motif has been early translated in the glyptic; the intaglio, by virtue of its iconography and shape, has been probably carved by a Greek-eastern engraver. The gem is an important witness of expectations system by the owner, maybe a thriving naukleros ankonites, open to trading and cultural relationships with East and Greece.
Achille e Pentesilea su un intaglio in ametista da Ankon
MICHELI, MARIA ELISA
2008
Abstract
The amethyst preserved in the Archaeological National Museum of Ancona shows Achilles and Penthesilea from the sculpture created at Pergamon in the Middle Hellenistic Period. The context and the pieces associated with the gem into the grave (140 - 120 B.C.) assured that the statuary motif has been early translated in the glyptic; the intaglio, by virtue of its iconography and shape, has been probably carved by a Greek-eastern engraver. The gem is an important witness of expectations system by the owner, maybe a thriving naukleros ankonites, open to trading and cultural relationships with East and Greece.File in questo prodotto:
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