Gem

Object Number:

29-128-1248

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Graeco-Roman

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Paste

Technique:

Intaglio

Iconography:

Boar
Lioness

Description:

Paste, Imitating banded Agate. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A boar on the right, attacked by a lioness who leaps on his back. Graeco-Roman, in the Hellenistic tradition.

Length:

1.6cm

Width:

1.3cm

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

1248	-	Sommerville Number
GL01b (ancient glass project)	-	Other Number

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: 65

[Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1877. Engraved Gems : Their Place in the History of Art.

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