Gem

29-128-436

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-436
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1750-1800
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Caracalla | George III
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. Caracalla, twenty-fourth Emperor of Rome, A.D. 211-217, so called from the long Gaulish tunic which he wore. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Y.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). bust of a man to right, broken and poorly repaired at left side. Sommerville identifies him as Caracalls, but features seem to be a portrait of a personage of the period of George III. Late 18th Century.

Height 3.4 cm
Width 2.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 436 - Sommerville Gem Number

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