Spier, Gems, 445.

Once Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767–1841) collection; bought in Rome. Cornelian, slightly convex, c. 19 x 14. Jesus, nimbate, on cross; small figures of the twelve apostles stand below, six on either side of the cross; a sheep stands in the exergue; in field and continued in exergue, ΕΗCΟ Χ-ΡΕCΤ-ΟC (positive).

Published: Cades, vol. 55, VI.C.14; Garrucci, Storia, 124, no. 16, pl. 479, 15; Kraus, Real-Encyklopädie, vol. 2, 241; Johannes Reil, Die frühchristlichen Darstellungen der Kreuzigung Christi (Leipzig, 1904), 57–58; Leclercq, “Gemmes”, 816–7, no. 53, fig. 4944; DACL, vol. 3, part 2, 3050, fig. 3358, s.v. “Croix et crucifix” (H. Leclercq); Leclercq, Manuel, vol. 2, 369, fig. 268; Dolger, Fischsymbol, vol. 1, 322, fig. 40; Derchain, “Die alteste Darstellung des Gekreuzigten”, 110; Engemann, “Glyptik”, 294, fig. 11; Spier, “Early Christian Gems”, 39, fig. 12. The gem appears not to have been included in the auction of Nott’s gems sold at Sotheby’s, London, 9 June 1842.