Gem

29-128-1147

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1147
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Neptune | Philosopher
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste, color lapis lazuli; cameo once gilded. Neptune. Antique Pastes, Case TTT.

Vermeule: Glass Paste. Cameo. Lapis Lazuli color with traces of gilding surviving. Head of an elderly bearded Greek, probably a philosopher, facing to right. Graeco-Roman.

Length 3.1 cm
Width 2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1147 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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