Gem

29-128-1338

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1338
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Alabaster
Technique Cameo
Iconography Hadrian | Apollo
Description

Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. Trajan sacrificing to Apollo. Cameos, Case JJJJ.

Vermeule: Circular. Cameo. (Unmounted) Copy of Hadrianic Tondo in Arch of Constantine. The Emperor Hadrian sacrificing to Apollo.

Outside Diameter 4.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1338 - Sommerville Gem Number

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