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29-128-1331

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1331
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Alabaster
Technique Cameo
Iconography Marcus Aurelius
Description

Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. Trajan, accompanied by Annona and Pieta, returns conqueror of the Dacians to Rome, and gives back to her the empire. Cameos, Case HHHH.

Vermeule: Oriental alabaster. Copy of relief of Emperor going forth to war from an arch of Marcus Aurelius, c. 180 A.D.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1331 - Sommerville Gem Number

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