Gem

29-128-38

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-38
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Plautius Hypsaeus Decianus
Description

Cameo (Unmounted) Draped bust of a Roman facing to right. Sommerville identifies him as "Plantius Hypeaeus Deceanus, consulard colleague of Aemelius Mamercenus, B.C. 475. Neo-Classic, in a style designed to suggest a Graeco-Roman cameo.

Length 2.6 cm
Width 2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 38 - Sommerville Gem Number

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