Phoebus Apollo Carved Shell Cameo Horse Drawn Chariot Greek Roman God Of The Sun
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:50733331 | Brand: Cameo |
Exquisitely detailed carved shell Cameo of Phoebus Apollo with Horse Drawn Chariot
Weight approximately 10 gramsSize approximately 1 7/8 inch long and 7/8 inch high.
I can not find a gold purity mark anywhere on this. Although it looks like gold I can't be sure.
Apollo is the Olympian god of the sun and light, music and poetry, healing and plagues, prophecy and knowledge, order and beauty, archery and agriculture. An embodiment of the Hellenic ideal of&nbs...p;kalokagathia, he is harmony, reason and moderation personified, a perfect blend of physical superiority and moral virtue. A complex deity who turns up in art and literature possibly as often as Zeus himself, Apollo is the only major god who appears with the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology.
Apollo was in charge of so many things that, naturally, even his more famous epithets are numerous. As a sun god, he was called “Phoebus, ” or “bright.”
Weight approximately 10 gramsSize approximately 1 7/8 inch long and 7/8 inch high.
I can not find a gold purity mark anywhere on this. Although it looks like gold I can't be sure.
Apollo is the Olympian god of the sun and light, music and poetry, healing and plagues, prophecy and knowledge, order and beauty, archery and agriculture. An embodiment of the Hellenic ideal of&nbs...p;kalokagathia, he is harmony, reason and moderation personified, a perfect blend of physical superiority and moral virtue. A complex deity who turns up in art and literature possibly as often as Zeus himself, Apollo is the only major god who appears with the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology.
Apollo was in charge of so many things that, naturally, even his more famous epithets are numerous. As a sun god, he was called “Phoebus, ” or “bright.”
