Gem Impression

53-5-53

From: Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 53-5-53
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Date Made 19th century
Section Mediterranean
Materials Plaster
Iconography Jupiter | Juno | Io
Description

Jupiter, to conceal his amours with Io from Juno, metamorphoses Io into a heifer; but Juno, suspecting the fraud, begs her of him.

Height 3.9 cm
Width 4.5 cm
Depth 0.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953

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