Sacrifice to Kybele
Two-layer onyx. Asia Minor (?). 1st century BCE.
2.7 × 1.8 cm. Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum

Sacrifice to Kybele.

Two-layer onyx. Asia Minor (?). 1st century BCE.
2.7 × 1.8 cm.

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).

Credits:
© 1994 Photo, text: O. Neverov, Antichnye kamei, “Iskusstvo-SPB”, SPb, 1994. S. 60—61, cat. 18.
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