Gem
Object Number:
29-128-872
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Graeco-Roman
Provenience:
Mediterranean
Period:
Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made:
50 BC-AD 400
Early Date:
-50
Late Date:
400
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Green Jasper
Technique:
Intaglio
Iconography:
Centaur
Cheiron?
Inscription
Horace
Description:
(Unmounted) and impression. A Centuar (probably Cheiron) "The wisest and most just of all the Centuars; friend and relative of Peleus, father of Achilles." The inscription running clockwise reads PLACIDIS - COEANT - IMMITIE
Height:
1.4cm
Width:
1.2cm
Credit Line:
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville
Other Number:
| 872 | - | Sommerville Gem Number |
| 160 | - | Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems) |
Bibliography:
[Book] Berges, Dietrich. 2002. Antike Siegel und Glasgemmen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville: im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 78. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 230, Fig. 132, Pl. 221, 225
[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1950. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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