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29-128-1191
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1191 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Heracles |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color rich sard. Hercules. A fragment. Antique Pastes, Case VVV. Vermeule: Paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A fragment broken across the middle. Herakles, a heavy bearded figure, seated to the left, his club held almost vertically in his extended right hand. The design perhaps copies the colossal Herakles of Lycippus which stood in antiquity in the City of Tarentum. Graeco-Roman. |
| Length | 2 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1191 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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