Gem
29-128-1143
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1143 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Late Republican Roman Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Bull |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color sard. A bull. Exquisite iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating carnelian. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Bull standing to right, a tree extending to the field behind him. Late Hellenistic. |
| Length | 1.4 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1143 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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