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29. Greek genre

These are Greek in manner but the subjects do not generally appear in this form on Greek gems.

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29/1 Gibraltar 26, from Gorham's Cave. AJBA 2 (1972) 135, fig. 3, no. 23 (Culican); Lopez de la Orden, no. 23. BH. Naked man, holding a cup (?) with a dog leaping up to him.

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29/2 Ibiza no. 205 (Madrid 36998). BH;PB. A youth with chlamys and stick (?) holds a goat on his forearm (rather like a statue), with a seated jackal (?) before him. III

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29/3 Ibiza no. 206 (Madrid 37016). BH. A youth (dwarf?) with a bag at his back and holding (?), a dog beside him. IV

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29/4 Ibiza no. 207 (Madrid 37003). BH;PB. A youth wearing a quiver fires an arrow, a dog leaps before him. I

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29/5 Ibiza no. 208 (Barcelona 9375). BH;PB. A bearded man walks holding two live goats on a staff over his shoulder. I

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29/6 Carthage no. 602. BH. Lower part of youth with chlamys, attended by a dog. III

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29/7 Carthage no. 607. BH. Stag running from a man with spear and club (?). III/IV

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29/8 Carthage no. 616. Gubel, Furn no. 154. BH;EXnb. Youth seated on a folding stool; a bow? at his back; a trident spear before him and holding a kantharos with four flowers? emerging; a dog leaps before him. I

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29/9 Kerkouan Museum. REPPAL 9 (1995) pl. 13.32. BH. A man walks with a dog on a lead.

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29/10 Paris, BN, Chandon de Briailles. BH. Man in cap, with spear, holding a titbit for a dog beside him. III

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B. With animals

For the scenes with a man sacrificing (or simply cutting up) a turtle, see E. Acquaro in RSF 4 (1976) 167-170; he relates them to Etruscan scenes of sacrifice (but not of turtles).

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29/11 Cagliari 9525 (Spano 54), from Tharros. Ebers, pl. H 67; AG pl. 15.54. BH. Crouching man milks goat into pail. The standing figure of a man with a stick is poised at an angle over the group, unrealistically. III

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29/12 Cagliari 9523 (Spano 44), from Tharros. AG pl. 15.55. BH. A man with stick drives a kid (?). Star above. III

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29/13 Cagliari 19874, from Tharros. AG pl. 15.56. BH; on a gold hoop B. A man with a stick drives a pig. Star and disc-and-crescent above. III

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29/14 Cagliari 35122 (Gouin). BH. A man holds a large fish. Another or a snake behind. II/III

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29/15 Cagliari 19876, from Tharros. BH. AG pl. 15.59; RSF 4 (1976) pl. 24.2 (Acquaro). A man holds a turtle which he prepares to cut up with a large knife. I

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29/16 Cagliari 19875, from Tharros. AG pl. 15.60; RSF 4 (1976) pl. 24.1 (Acquaro). BH; on a gold hoop B. A kneeling man prepares to cut up a turtle over a table; murex shell behind. I

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C. With implements

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29/17 Ibiza no. 201 (Barcelona 9384). BH;PB. Youth kneels with an adze trimming a pole. I

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29/18 Ibiza no. 202 (Ibiza 3132). BH. A man trims a post or statue with a hammer. IV

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29/19 Cagliari 9482 (Spano 13), from Tharros. AG pl. 15.62; RSF 17 (1989) pl. 12a (Acquaro). BH. A man kneels to work on a plough with an adze; a branch behind. III

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29/20 Cagliari 9459 (Spano 48), from Tharros. AG pl. 15.61; RSF 17 (1989) pl. 12b (Acquaro). BH. A man kneels to work with an adze on an anchor (?). III

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29/21 Cagliari 9502, from Tharros. BH. A man kneels; incomplete cutting before him. III

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29/22 Tharros pl. 63f (BM ANE 133539), London no. 402, pl. 7. BH;PB. Youth kneels with an adze to trim a plough. III

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29/23 Tharros pl. 63g (BM ANE 133493), London no. 400. BH. Kneeling man holding a large curved object. III

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29/X1 Barcelona, from Ampurias. M. Almagro, La Necropolis de Ampurias 1 (1953) pl. 13.19. Cornelian. BL. A man standing with chlamys, holding a branch; a dog upright before him.

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