Gem
29-128-1130
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1130 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Republican Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Slave | Warrior | Priam? | Achilles? |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique Paste Intaglio. A slave imploring his life of a warrior. Antique Pastes, Case SSS. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A supplicant kneeling to right, before an armed warrior. The subject is perhaps Priam before Achilles. Roman Republican, the style similar to that on consular denarii. |
| Length | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1130 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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