Carnelian scarab
Unknown Artist
Youth bending to lift a Corinthian helmet.
Inscribed TIMEAS.
Credit: Purchase, Helen H. Mertens, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc., and Mrs. Martin Fried Gifts, 1987
Ca. 500 B.C.
Carnelian
1.4 x 1.4cm
1987.11.7
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