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29-128-277

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-277
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1700-1799
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Apollo?
Description

Sommerville: Onyx. A Divinity. Antique fragment of first century. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Q.

Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Left side broken away. Laureate, draped bust of a youthful male divinity, perhaps Apollo, facing to left. the hair of the back of the head is done in a curiously non-antique "sappho" - type sakkos. 18th century in skillful imitation of a Roman cameo of ca A.D. 50

Length 2.1 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 277 - Sommerville Number

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