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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3206
Empúries

stone engraving

MAC GIR-023150

Object type
stone engraving
Production date
1 / 100
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
stone
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
stone carving
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
34 x 29 x 3 mm
Description
Intaglios are small gems cut by incision at the top, which were embedded in jewellery such as rings or pendants. This intaglio is of Roman origin and comes from Empúries (L'Escala, Alt Empordà). It was made from a cornaline gemstone 3.4 cm long and 2.9 cm wide. It represents a well-known mythological motif: a young Ganymede offering a drink to an eagle represented by Jupiter. According to mythology, Ganymede was a boy of incomparable beauty whom Zeus fell in love with and transformed into eagle to abduct him and take him to his Olympus Palace to make him his lover and cup-bearer of the gods.

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