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29-128-1276

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1276
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Enamel
Iconography Butterfly | Mercury's Foot
Description

Sommerville: Antique enamel. Symbolic Seal, the foot of Mercury pressing on a butterfly. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ.

Vermeule: Paste, imitating Lapis Lazuli. Intaglio. (Unmounted) The winged foot of Hermes poised upon the butterfly of Psyche. Graeco-Roman.

Length 1.2 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1276 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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