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29-128-1284

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1284
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Idol | Cult Image | Artemis? | Aphrodite?
Description

Sommerville: antique paste intaglio. Worshipping an Idol. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ.

Vermeule: Paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A female figure seated to right, with a cult image perhaps of Artemis or Aphrodite beside her. Graeco-Roman

Length 1.7 cm
Width 1.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1284 - Sommerville Number

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