Gem

29-128-1782

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1782
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Dionysos | Column | Panther | Apollo | Lyre
Description

Vermeule: Onyx. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Liber or Bacchus standing to left, leaning against a column. He holds thrysus and karanthos, panther gambols at his feet. At right stands the youthful Apollo holding lyre and plectron. Graeco-Roman.

Height 5.3 cm
Width 4.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1782 - Sommerville Gem Number

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