Gem

29-128-861

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-861
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Jasper
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Eros | Cock | Grapes
Description

Sommerville: Red Jasper. Intaglio. A Cock striving with Cupid for a bunch of grapes. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case BBB.

Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Cupid holding up a bunch of grapes and teasing a cock who stands at right. The subject of Erotes playing with cocks was popular in Graeco-Roman statuary, reliefs and paintings. Graeco-Roman.

Height 1.3 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 861 - Sommerville Gem Number

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