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29-128-1208

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1208
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Roma | Athena | Throne | Thunderbolt
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color ruby. Roma. Very fine. Antique Pastes, Case WWW.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating amethyst. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Athena seated left on a lion footed throne. She holds Zeus' thunderbolt in her raised right hand and her left arm rests on her shield which appears behind her. Graeco-Roman, the design based on IVth models such as those used for coins of Lysimachus of Thrace. Graeco-Roman.

Length 1.6 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1208 - Sommerville Number

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