Object Number | 29-128-1335 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1850 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Alabaster |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Hadrian | Silvanus | Sacrifice |
Description | Sommerville: Oriental Alabaster. Trajan making a sacrifice to Silvanus, consisting of corn, meat, milk, wine, and pigs; the ceremony is accompanied by fumigation. Cameos, Case IIII. Vermeule: Circular. Cameo. (Unmounted) Copy of Hadrianic Tondo on Arch of Constantine. Hadrian sacrificing to Silvanus, God of Forests. |
Outside Diameter | 4.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1335 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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