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Baron Stosch

Collector.

Life and work

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    Collector of engraved gems, whose cabinet held a gem compared by Cesnola with a Cypriot scarabaeoid and a scarab catalogued by Boardman among the Classical Phoenician scarabs; sulphur casts of his gems were listed by Tassie.

    Friedrich Imhoff -Blumer, Otto Keller, Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Altertums (1889)

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    Stosch's sulphur impressions of Roman gems are listed; the catalogue cites his collection as a source of the pastes, with no Cypriot link shown.

    A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos as well as intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Eur (1791)

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    Former owner of an opal gem of a baboon in the Berlin collection, and of carnelian gems later in the Stoschische Sammlung.

    Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, 1838-1920, Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Alterums (1889)

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    Owned Sulphur impression of scarab, pointed crown on block seat, shouldering axe, hand raised

    John Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs: A catalogue and study (2003), p. 66

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Sources

  1. 1.Friedrich Imhoff -Blumer, Otto Keller, Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Altertums (1889).
  2. 2.A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos as well as intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Eur (1791).
  3. 3.Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, 1838-1920, Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Alterums (1889).
  4. 4.Alexander W. Persse, Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years Residence in That Island (1877).
  5. 5.John Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs: A catalogue and study (2003).

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