Gem
29-128-1135
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1135 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italo-Etruscan |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Ceres | Woman | Grain | Eagle | Scepter | Priapus? | Ritual Scene |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. Ceres. Beautiful Oriental design. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermueule: Glass paste, imitating sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted). Female kneeling to right, at a bowl. Two stalks of grain grow beside her and an eagle with a sceptre flies above. A small cult image, perhaps of Priapus, appears to emerge from the pot. A ritual scene. Sommerville 1135 - Ceres. |
| Length | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1135 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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