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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