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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