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29-128-1269

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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