Some intaglios just for fun

Glasspaste. A scene of animal sacrifice, but appears to be a domestic context. Notice it seems plausibly a mother father ans sun. about to slay the goat. What is on the ground near to the father’s feet in front of the altar. J. J. Winckelmann, Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch, dédiée à son Eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal Alexandre Albani (1760), 307, Kat.Nr. II,1856 Zenon Sammlung Stosch, W Cl II 1856 Arachne entry for plaster cast.

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