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29-128-1335

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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