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Catalog Level:
item
Type:
gem
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Components/Parts-Quantity: 1
Type: gem
Components/Parts-Quantity: 1 Type: setting
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Classification
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Terms:
costume
jewelry
decorative arts
Greek and Roman art
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Titles or Names
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Text:
Gem with an Athlete Cleaning Himself with a Strigil
Preference:
preferred
Type: repository
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Creation
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Creator Description:
attributed to Epimenes (Greek, active ca. 500-480
BCE)
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Qualifier: attributed to
Identity:
Epimenes
Roles:
carver
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Creation Date:
ca. 500 BCE
Earliest:
-0510 Latest:
-0490
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement
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Indexing Term: Roman
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description:
17.3 x 13.2 x 6.4 mm (5/8 x 1/2 x 1/4 inches)
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Value: 17.3 Unit: mm
Type: height
Value: 13.2 Unit: mm Type:
width
Value: 6.4 Unit: mm Type:
depth
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Materials and Techniques
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Description:
polished obsidian, engraved and intaglio
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Material Name:
obsidian
Technque Names:
engraving
intaglio
polishing
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Subject Matter
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Indexing terms:
human
figure
apparel
identification
seal
strigil
athlete
male
scarab
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Descriptive Note
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Text: Depicts a youth bending over
to scrape his shin with a strigil (curved blade).
After training, Greek athletes coated themselves in
oil and used a strigil to scrape off the sweat, oil,
and dirt. The pose of this figure, bending over in
some activity, was a favorite for carved gems in the
late 500s BCE. The shape of the gem is a scaraboid,
a simplified scarab that developed out of the older
beetle-shaped seal gems. Scaraboid gems were pierced
and worn as a ring or pendant. When attached to a
metal hoop and worn as a ring, the curved side faced
out and the intaglio surface rested against the finger.
When needed as a seal, the ring was removed, the gem
swiveled, and the intaglio design was pressed into
soft clay or wax to identify and secure property.
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Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online
Page: accessed 24 July 2005
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States)
Repository Number:
85.AN.370.6
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Revised 6 December 2006
