Gem

29-128-875

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-875
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Heliotrope (Mineral)
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Silenus | Bacchus | Dionysos
Description

Sommerville: Heliotrope. Silenus Instructing Bacchus. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case CCC.

Vermeule: Heliotrope. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Silenos standing to left, beside a youthful Dionysus who extends his hand to him. Graeco-Roman

Height 1.1 cm
Width 1.4 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 875 - Sommerville Gem Number

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