Dolphin amulet, Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 200 BC–200 AD, From Egypt, Chalcedony, h. 1.5 cm (9/16 in.), This is one of a small group of animals carved in semiprecious stones from the Davis Collection that share share a general liveliness and more Hellenistic than Egyptian style. Alongside subjects that are familiar in Egyptian iconography such as a baboon and ducks, are others like a goat, dolphins, rhinoceros, galloping horse, and reclining hound that are more at home in the Greco-Roman sphere
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Dolphin amulet, Ptolemaic, Roman Period, 200 BC–200 AD, Egypt, Chalcedony, h, 1.5 cm, 9/16, small group, animals carved, semiprecious stones, Davis Collection, share share, general liveliness, Hellenistic, Egyptian style, Alongside subjects, familiar, iconography, baboon, ducks, goat, dolphins, rhinoceros, galloping horse, reclining hound, home, Greco-Roman sphere
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