Gem

Brooch

29-128-743

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-743
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Date Made 100-199 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate | Bronze
Technique Cameo
Iconography Medusa
Description

Sommerville: Agate. Medusa, set in a bronze brooch of the second century A.D. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case SS.

Vermeule: Agate. Cameo. (In bronze brooch, probably of II century A.D.) Pendant? Head of Medusa, facing. Roman Imperial.

Height 1.4 cm
Width 1.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 743 - Sommerville Gem Number

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