Gem

29-128-198

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-198
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Hellenistic Ruler | Lysimachus | Roman Emperor | Claudius
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx - Lysimachus without the horn of Jupiter Ammon. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case L.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Diademed bust of a Hellenistic ruler or Roman Emperor facing to right. Broken on sides and bottom and remounted on glass. The feautres are very like those of the Emperor Claudius. Graeco-Roman.

Length 2.3 cm
Width 1.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 198 - Sommerville Gem Number

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