Gem

29-128-1345

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1345
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, victorious, returns to the city, and is crowned by Roma and Victory. Cameos, Case LLLL.

Vermeule: Cameo. Oriental Alabaster. Copy of relief from "Great Trajanic Frieze" incorporated in passageway and on ends of the attic of the Arch of Constantine, Rome.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1345 - Sommerville Gem Number

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