Gem

29-128-1342

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1342
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Alabaster
Technique Cameo
Iconography Hadrian | Lion
Description

Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. Trajan has killed a lion. Cameos, Case KKKK.

Vermeule: Circular. Cameo. Copy of Hadrianic Tondo on Arch of Constantine. The emperor Hadrian returning from lion hunt.

Outside Diameter 4.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1342 - Sommerville Gem Number

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