Gem

29-128-1389

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1389
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1700-1799
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Livia
Description

Sommerville: Livia. Persian Seals, Case TTTT.

Vermeule: Vitreous paste. Cameo. (Unmounted) Veiled bust of the empress Livia to right. She wears flowers and sheaves of grain in her hair, and is represented as Demeter. Copy of a cameo in the Imperial Collection in Vienna.

Height 6 cm
Width 7.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1389 - Sommerville Gem Number

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