T546, THE ARMED HOST SPRINGING FROM THE GROUND ON WHICH CADMUS HAD SCATTERED THE DRAGON'S TEETH [CADMUS SOWING THE TEETH OF THE DRAGON, WHICH IS LYING DEAD NEAR HIM, MINERVA DESCENDING TO HIM]
- Record Number: 40000575
- Sub-database: Poniatowski
- Reference Number: T546
- Material of Original Gem: Cornelian
- Description: THE ARMED HOST SPRINGING FROM THE GROUND ON WHICH CADMUS HAD SCATTERED THE DRAGON'S TEETH [CADMUS SOWING THE TEETH OF THE DRAGON, WHICH IS LYING DEAD NEAR HIM, MINERVA DESCENDING TO HIM]
- Inscription Greek: ΠΥΡΓΟΤΕΛΕΣ
- Signature: Pyrgoteles
- Literary Source Record: Ovid, Metam.
- Current Collection: Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841): 546
- Previous Collections:
- Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.111
- Christie's, London: 1839-1326
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