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29-128-1212

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1212
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Bull
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. A bull. Rich iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case WWW.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating lapis. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Cow walking to right. Perhaps copied from Myron's famous statue as seen on gold and silver coins of Vespasian (A.D. 69-79). Graeco-Roman.

Length 0.9 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1212 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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