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29-128-1250

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1250
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 100-199 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Sacrifice | Priapus
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, fine color. Evidently a Sacrifice. A fragment. Antique Pastes, Case YYY.

Vermeule: Paste, imitating Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Lower half of a scene of sacrifice, probably showing a cupid making an offering in front of a terminal figure of Priapus. Graeco-Roman, probably of the IInd A.D.

Length 1.2 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1250 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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