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29-128-373

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-373
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Trajan Decius
Description

Sommerville: Sardonyx. Trajan Decius, thirty-eighth Emperor of Rome. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case U.

Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Bust of the Emperor Trajan Decius wearing armor and a radiate crown. Portrait copied from a series of large medallic bronze coins struck in commemoration of the millenium of Rome.

Height 2.5 cm
Width 1.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 373 - Sommerville Gem Number

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