Gem

29-128-1344

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1344
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Alabaster
Technique Cameo
Iconography Trajan
Description

Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. Trajan assaults the Dacians. Cameos, Case LLLL.

Vermeule: Oriental Alabaster. Cameo. (Unmounted) Copy from a section of the "Great Trajanic Frieze" incorporated in the end of the attic of the Arch of Constantine in Rome.

Height 8 cm
Width 5.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1344 - Sommerville Gem Number

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