Object Number | 29-128-533 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Etruscan |
Provenience | Egypt | Esneh |
Manufacture Location | Egypt (uncertain) |
Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sard |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Harpocrates? |
Description | Sommerville: Sard. An Intaglio, very curious. An aerial locomotive with one wheel. Found at Esneh. Etruscan Seals, Scarabei, Intaglios, and Rings, Case FF. Vermeule: Sardonyx. Intaglio. (Unmounted). A figure, perhaps Harpocrates or another Graeco-Egyptian divinity reclining to right, on a couch set on a stand terminating on a wheel. Graeco-Roman. cursory work, perhaps produced in Egypt. |
Height | 1.1 cm |
Width | 1.4 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 533 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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