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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