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29-224-738

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-224-738
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sard
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Mars Victor | Trophy | Spear
Description

Vermeule: Sard. (Unmounted). Man with trophy and spear walking to right. The number of stones of this object indicates the popularity of this Roman Republican cult image, symbolic of Rome's Graeco-Roman military triumph.

Height 1.4 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904

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