Object Number | 29-128-861 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Jasper |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Eros | Cock | Grapes |
Description | Sommerville: Red Jasper. Intaglio. A Cock striving with Cupid for a bunch of grapes. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case BBB. Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Cupid holding up a bunch of grapes and teasing a cock who stands at right. The subject of Erotes playing with cocks was popular in Graeco-Roman statuary, reliefs and paintings. Graeco-Roman. |
Height | 1.3 cm |
Width | 1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 861 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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