Gem

29-128-1116

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1116
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Athena | Minerva
Description

Sommerville: Antique Paste Intaglio. Minerva. Antique Pastes, Case SSS.

Vermeule: Paste, Iridescent. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Helmeted bust of Athena to right, with the aegis. The design is based freely on some older intaglio copying Phidias' Athena Parthenos. Graeco-Roman.

Height 1.5 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1116 - Sommerville Gem Number

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