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29-128-1217

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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