Gem

Object Number:

29-128-30

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Period:

Neoclassical

Date Made:

1700-1850

Early Date:

1700

Late Date:

1850

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Chalcedony
Onyx

Technique:

Cameo

Iconography:

Nero Drusus

Description:

Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. Bust said to represent Nero Drusus, brother of Tiberius and father of Germanicus.

Length:

3cm

Width:

2cm

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

30	-	Sommerville Number
590	-	Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems)

Bibliography:

[Book] Berges, Dietrich. 2011. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 274, Fig. 210, Pl. 336

[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1950. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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