Object Image

Carnelian ring stone

The wounded Spartan hero Othryades writing on a shield.

Credit: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881

3rd–2nd century B.C.
Carnelian
1.5 x 1.5cm
81.6.22
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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