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29-128-1122

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Object Number 29-128-1122
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Cameo
Iconography Mask | Satyr? | Theater Mask
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color white, on deep sapphire fond. A bearded msak. A fragment. Antique Pastes, Case SSS.

Vermeule: Paste, white on deep Sapphire. Cameo. (Fragment, broken on all sides) A theatrical mask facing left. Graeco-Roman.

Length 4.3 cm
Width 2.9 cm
Depth 0.6 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1122 - Sommerville Gem Number

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