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29-128-1258

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1258
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture European
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1600-1699
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Livia
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. Livia, wife of Augustus. Remarkable colors. Antique Pastes, Case YYY.

Vermeule: Glass paste imitating Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Diademed veiled bust of a woman to right. "Livia." Perhaps 17th century.

Length 2 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1258 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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