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29-128-1229

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1229
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Ulysses | Menelaus | Ares | Aphrodite
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color emerald. Ulysses and Menelaus. Antique Pastes, Case XXX.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating emerald. Intaglio (Unmounted) Ares and Aphrodite seated to right. They appear to be on Ares' cuirass and his shield appears at the right. Graeco-Roman, the scene based on some Hellenistic statue group or painting.

Length 1 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1229 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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