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29-128-1158

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1158
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Julio-Claudian Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Two Heads | Roman Emperor | Tiberius? | Female Head | Livia? | Goddess?
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color white on ruby fond. Two heads. Antique Pastes, Case UUU.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Sardonyx white on red. Cameo. (Unmounted) Busts of a man and woman facing. The man appears to be Tiberius (14-37 A.D.). The woman is either a goddess or perhaps his mother, the Empress Livia. Julio-Claudian.

Length 1.3 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1158 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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