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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