Gem Impression

53-5-62

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 53-5-62
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Date Made 19th century
Section Mediterranean
Materials Plaster
Iconography Jupiter
Description

Jupiter destroys the Cercopes with his thunderbolts, and then changes them to monkeys, for having refused, after promising their assistance and receiving remuneration, to fight against Saturn

Height 3.4 cm
Width 4 cm
Depth 0.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953

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