Gem
29-128-67
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-67 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Post Classical |
Date Made | 1400-1499 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sard | Sardonyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Man | Augustus? |
Description | Sommerville: Sard. Incognito. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case E. Vermeule: Sard. Cameo (unmounted) Laureate head of a man to right. 15th or later, a minor stone of indeterminable identification. A person such as Augustus is perhaps intended. |
Length | 0.9 cm |
Width | 0.7 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 67 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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