| Object Number | 29-128-821 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 0-99 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Cowry Shell | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Woman | Roman Empress |
| Description | Sommerville: A Cowry, with cameo ornamentation - shell money. Tenerae, Case ZZ. Vermeule: Courie shell pieces for mounting and with gold pin through it. Cameo. Head of a female to left. The features vaguely resemble the features of a Roman empress of the 1st. Century A.D. From the style, perhaps Graeco-Roman. |
| Height | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 821 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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