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29-128-1199

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Object Number 29-128-1199
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Neptune
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color sard. Neptune. Antique Pastes, Case VVV.

Vermeule: Paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Bust of a divinity to left. Sommerville identifies him as Poseidon or Neptune, but the design is rather difficult to make out. Graeco-Roman, in imitation of a Hellenistic model.

Length 1.4 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1199 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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