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Epimenes signed his name on a gem now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was probably trained on one of the Aegean islands.

Said to be from Naukratis (Carnegie 1908, p. 27).

From at least 1891, collection of the Earl of Southesk; acquired July 20, 1931, purchased from the Earl of Southesk, through Maggs Brothers, London.

Middleton, J. H. 1891. The Engraved Gems of Classical Times, with a Catalogue of Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 25-26, fig. 17.

The Lewis Collection of Gems and Rings in the Possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1892. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, pp. 27f., fig. 3.

Furtwängler, A. 1900. Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum. Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, vols. 1 and 2, pl. IX, 23, vol. 3, p. 106.

Lady Helena Carnegie, ed. 1908. Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems Formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. London: B. Quaritch, vol. 1, pp. 27-28, no. B8, pl. II.

Beazley, J. D. 1920. The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 21, pl. A, 10.

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1931. "A Greek Gem from the Southesk Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 26(11): pp. 257, 267-68.

Boardman, J. 1970. Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical. London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 142, 184, pl. 357.

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1970. "The Department of Greek and Roman Art: Triumphs and Tribulations." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3: pp. 83, 86, 88, fig. 26.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries. New York: E. P. Dutton, p. 122, no. 76, ill.

Cook, R. M. 1972. Greek Art: Its Development, Character, and Influence. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, p. 168, pl. 69e.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 38, p. 57.

Mertens, Joan R. 1989. "Timeas's Scarab." Metropolitan Museum Journal 24: p. 54, figs. 4-5.