Object Number | 29-128-327 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Post Classical |
Date Made | 1500-1699 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sardonyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Roman Emperor | Trebonianus Gallus |
Description | Sommerville: Sardonyx. Trebonianus Gallus, forty-first Emperor of Rome. Beautiful stone. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case S. Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gilt locket setting). Laureate, draped cuirassed bust to right., identified by Sommerville as Treboniana Gallus 41st. Emperor of Rome (A.D. 251-253). Features copied in a general way from a coin portrait. 16th or 17th century. |
Height | 1.9 cm |
Width | 2.3 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 327 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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