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29-128-1161

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1161
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Silenus | Maenad | Dionysos
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. Antique Pastes, Case UUU.

Vermeule: Paste. Cameo. (Broken about top and unmounted). Silenus, lolling on ground, and a Maenad give a cup of wine to the child Bacchus, standing to the left. A tree fills the background. Graeco-Roman.

Length 2.8 cm
Width 2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1161 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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