Object Number | 29-128-1269 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Mask |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color sapphire. Two masks, obverse and reverse; both patina and iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ. Vermeule: Blue glass, in high relief on both sides (Unmounted). Two Graeco-Egyptian heads very reminiscent of the plastic mummy masks produced in the Egyptian delta in the Ist and IInd centuries A.D. Graeco-Roman. |
Length | 2.1 cm |
Width | 1.5 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1269 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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