Gem

29-128-1354

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1354
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Heracles
Description

Sommerville: Sardonyx. Hercules, seated, with club, lion's skin, and vigorous young tree, also emblematic of his power. Miscellaneous Cameos, Case NNNN.

Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. Herakles seated on a rock.

Height 9.9 cm
Width 6.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1354 - Sommerville Gem Number

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