Spier, Gems on CBd-1568
Spier, Gems, 468.
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Fortnum 72; bought from Heinrich Dressel, 1880 (Ł2). Cornelian, convex, back flat, c. 13.5 x 10.5; traces of a corroded iron ring. In three registers, ΙΑW (negative) between two stars; dove above and fish below.
Published: Fortnum, “Engraved Gems”, 361, no. 7; Dölger, Fischsymbol, vol. 1, pl. 3, fig. 19, and vol. 5, 270; Leclercq, “Gemmes”, 840, no. 175, fig. 5057.
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