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29-128-813

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-813
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Creator Giovanni Weder
Period Graeco-Roman Period | Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Lysimachus | Signature
Description

Sommerville: Alabaster. Lysimachus, with Greek signature. Tenerae, Case XX.

Vermeule: Chalcedony. Cameo. (Unmounted) Broken on bottom. Filleted bust of a young man of the type of Alexander the Great, facing left. Sommerville identifies this as Lysimachus. Signed Giovanni Weder.

Height 4.1 cm
Width 3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 813 - Sommerville Gem Number

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