| Object Number | 29-128-1148 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Elephant Head |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. Africa. The headdress is the skin of an elephant's head. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermeule: Ancient paste, imitating Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Broken across top. Draped bust of Apica facing to right. She wears the elephant skin cap, the trunk of which is broken off above her curls over the forehead. Graeco-Roman, after Alexandrine Hellenistic models. |
| Length | 1.9 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1148 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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