Gem

29-128-200

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-200
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Scipio Africanus
Description

Sommerville: Pale Sardonyx. Scipio Africanus, so called on account of his conquests in Africa. He destroyed Carthage. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case L.

Vermeule: Banded agate. Cameo. (Unmounted). Bust of a man of the later Roman Republic, facing to right. The features are termed by Sommerville those of Scipio Africanus, are copied from a marble portrait of an unknown person (compare the so-called Cicero in the Uffigi Gallery, Florence). Neo-Classic.

Length 2.1 cm
Width 1.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 200 - Sommerville Gem Number

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