Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Sea deities and animals / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Groups of statues / Florence, Uffizi, inv. 208 (Nereid riding a hippocamp)
Sea deities and animals / Nereids / Various activities / Riding a sea-monster / Monster with the head of a horse (Hippocamp)

Further details

decoration of the relic of the fragment of Christ's manger in the treasury of the Holy Roman Empire

Artist or creator

Thamyras (active late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD)

Date

1st century BC (second half) - 1st century (early) in the style of the 4th century BC

Location

Vienna, Weltliche Schatzkammer (inv. SK WS XIII 24)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Otto Kurz, An engraved Gem Signed by Thamyras, Album Amicorum J. G. van Gelder, The Hague 1973, pp. 211-214

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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