Gem
29-128-1134
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1134 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Nymph | Sea Monster |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. A sea-nymph, riding a monster with a dolphin's body and tail. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating banded Agate. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A Nereid riding to left on a sea monster, probably a sea bull. Her cloak billows out over her shoulder. Graeco-Roman, based on the famous marine group created by Scopas in the IVth B.C. and paralleling the sea nymphs on Roman decorative pieces such as the well-known Ahenobarbus altar base in Munich. |
| Length | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1134 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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