Gem Impression
53-5-115
From: Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 53-5-115 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy) |
| Date Made | 19th century |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Plaster |
| Iconography | Venus |
| Description | Venus transforming the Cerastes, the inhabitants of the island of Cyprus, into bulls for immolating human victims |
| Height | 3.9 cm |
| Width | 5.1 cm |
| Depth | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953 |
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