Amethyst intaglio signed by Dioskourides, ca. 25 BC. The gem is typically claimed to depict the Greek orator Demosthenes. The piece was formerly owned by Sir Arthur Evans (sold in 1941).

Image: J. Paul Getty Museum (2019.13.15). Link - https://t.co/9omJPsi9Kp

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Amethyst intaglio signed by the artists Dioskourides, ca. 25 BC.

The gem is typically claimed to depict the Greek orator Demosthenes. Provenance extending back to ca. 1602, once owned by Sir Arthur Evans.

Image: J. Paul Getty Museum (2019.13.15)

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For future orators the quality of Demosthenes' works and speeches he left behind became a major source of inspiration - to none more so than Cicero, Rome's answer to Demosthenes. After death, Demosthenes became the epitome of Athenian virtue

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For future orators the quality of Demosthenes' works and speeches he left behind became a major source of inspiration - to none more so than Cicero, Rome's answer to Demosthenes. After death, Demosthenes became the epitome of Athenian virtue.

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For future orators the quality of Demosthenes' works and speeches he left behind became a major source of inspiration - to none more so than Cicero, Rome's answer to Demosthenes. After death Demosthenes became the epitome of Athenian virtue

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Portrait of the Orator Demosthenes. Date-1st century B.C., Anatolia. - Roman Imperial period

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Portrait of the Greek Orator Date-1st century B.C., - Imperial period

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