Gem

29-128-2063A

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2063A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Late Antique Period
Date Made 300-399 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Green Jasper
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Household God | Lar | Rhyton | Drinking Horn | Laurel Branch
Description

(Unmounted) Youthful male figure in short cloak standing facing. He holds a rhyton in right hand and branch (?) in left a Roman Lar perhaps intended. The carving is late antique IVth or later, contemporary with so-called "gnostic" gems, Graeco-Roman.

Height 3.3 cm
Width 2.5 cm
Depth 0.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2063 - Sommerville Gem Number

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