Object Number | 29-128-1256 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Face | Eros? | Harpocrates? |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste. A Greek antique. Full face, yellow ground; fragment worn by time. Antique Pastes, Case YYY. Vermeule: Glass paste. Cameo. (Unmounted) Head of Eros or perhaps Harpocrates facing. Fragment; broken on all edges. Style is Hellenistic in the Alexandrine tradition, not unlike Graeco-Roman work in stucco and terracotta. |
Length | 3.2 cm |
Width | 2.6 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1256 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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