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A LARGE ITALIAN AMETHYST INTAGLIO
Homeric scene from the Trojan War of the Greek hero Ajax and the Trojan prince Hektor fighting over the body of the murdered Greek hero Patroklos, whom Hektor has stripped of the armour given to him by his beloved Achilles (Iliad, XVII).Inscribed below the groundline in Greek, ΔΑΜΑΣ (vanquish).Perhaps the work of Giovanni Calandrelli (1784–1853),
Ca. 1810
#5863
Ex: London private collection, acquired at a London auction house. London Market, 2021.
Published: Antiquarium; Ancient Treasures XX. (London, 2022) p.48