Gem
29-128-63
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-63 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Period | Renaissance |
| Date Made | 1500-1599 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Jasper |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Athena | Inscription |
| Description | Sommerville: Red Jasper - Athene, with abbreviated Greek Inscription on obverse on helmet and legend above head: "Smyrna, Phocaea, Lebedes, Klaros, Eretria, Chalics, Teos, Mycale, Colophon, Ephesus, Priene, Myonnesus, Miletus". Also on Reverse."Gift from the league of the Ionian cities to the shrine of the Clarean Apollo in Lebedes." Greek and Roman Cameos, Case D. Vermeule: Red Jasper. Cameo. (Unmounted) Helmeted head of Athena to the right. For the lengthy inscriptions on obverse and reverse, see Sommerville pp 670 f. Italian Renaissance, probably 16th Century. |
| Length | 4.9 cm |
| Width | 3.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 63 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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