Object Number | 29-128-1217 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Warrior | Spear | Horse | Dragon? |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color deep sard, with figure in relief. Mounted warrior with spear, attacked by a species of dragon. Fragment worn by time. Antique Pastes, Case WWW. Vermeule: Glass paste, colored to imitate yellowish Sard; broken across right side and much deteriorated. (Unmounted) Warrior on horseback to right, attacking a fallen adversary, the remains of whose body, a leg and part of the cuirass ? are visible at the lower right. Graeco-Roman. |
Length | 2.7 cm |
Width | 2.3 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1217 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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