A roman carnelian intaglio. Gryllos. The fantastic creature is made of a cock body, on which there are , grafted, an equine protome on the top and a sylenus head on the chest, flanked, towards the back, by a ram chewing wheat ears. In the field we can see a caduceus (whose handle is worn). Magic and apotropaical intaglio (Hippalectryon). Ground line. Wear marks. For comparisons: G.M.A. Richter, Catalogue of engraved gems. Greek, Etruscan and Roman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art- New York), p. 114 n. 545.
2nd century A.D.
8 x 11 x 3 mm.