Gem

29-128-1127

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1127
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Medusa | Eros
Description

Sommerville: Antique Paste Cameo, color of ruby. Medusa. A fragment. Antique Pastes, Case SSS.

Vermeule: Paste, ruby color. cameo. (Unmounted) Circular disc, broken on all but the lower left side. Head of a chubby Eros facing. Graeco-Roman.

Length 3.2 cm
Width 2.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1127 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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