Gem
29-128-1208
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1208 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Roma | Athena | Throne | Thunderbolt |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color ruby. Roma. Very fine. Antique Pastes, Case WWW. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating amethyst. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Athena seated left on a lion footed throne. She holds Zeus' thunderbolt in her raised right hand and her left arm rests on her shield which appears behind her. Graeco-Roman, the design based on IVth models such as those used for coins of Lysimachus of Thrace. Graeco-Roman. |
Length | 1.6 cm |
Width | 1.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1208 - Sommerville Number |
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