~ Agate Cup.
Culture: Near Eastern (Parthian)
Place of origin: Iran (?)
Date: 2nd century B.C.
Medium: Agate
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~ Agate Cup.
Culture: Near Eastern (Parthian)
Place of origin: Iran (?)
Date: 2nd century B.C.
Medium: Agate
~ Cameo.
Culture: Greek (Ptolemaic)
Place of origin: Egypt
Date: 2nd century B.C.
Medium: Banded agate
~ Cameo with Bust of the Goddess Isis with Modern Mount.
Culture: Greek (Ptolemaic)
Place of origin: Alexandria, Egypt
Date: ca. 200–31 B.C.
Medium: Cameo: Banded agate; modern mount: gold
~ The "Rubens Vase".
Culture: Byzantine
Period: Late Antique
Date: ca. A.D. 400
Medium: Gold, agate
~ Askos.
Date: 1st-2nd Century B.C.
Place of origin: Greece
Period: Ptolemaic Dynasty
Medium: Agate and gold
~ Menat necklace from Malqata.
Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty; reign of Amenhotep III
Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Place of origin: Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, Birket Habu Mound B 1, Private House B, MMA excavations, 1911–12
Medium: Faience, bronze or copper alloy, glass, agate, carnelian, lapis lazuli, turquoise.
~ Bowl. Culture: Roman Place of origin: Qift [Koptos], Egypt Date: A.D. 1st - 2nd century Medium: Agate
~Gold and banded carnelian ring: on scarab bezel, a youth. Period: Late Archaic Date: early 5th century B.C. Culture: Etruscan Medium: Gold, agate