Gem
29-128-42
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-42 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Woman | Dacia? |
| Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony. A figure representing a Conquered City; also people in Bondage. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case C. Vermeule: Chalcedony. Cameo. (Unmounted, broken and repaired). A female seated to the left, in the dejected attitude used by the Romans to personify conquered cities and provinces. The figure recalls the well-known marble relief of the conquered Dacia (Romania) in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Graeco-Roman. |
| Length | 1.9 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 42 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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