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29-128-1197

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1197
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Asiatic King | Parthian?
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color ruby. An Asiatic King. Antique Pastes, Case VVV.

Vermeule: Paste, colored Ruby. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Diademed, draped bust of an Asiatic King facing to left. The features suggest a Parthian ruler of the Roman Imperial Period. Graeco-Roman.

Length 1.9 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1197 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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