Gem

Object Number:

29-128-123

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Roman

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Period:

Imperial Roman Period

Date Made:

early 1 st c. AD

Early Date:

Late Date:

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Onyx

Technique:

Cameo

Iconography:

Hadrian
Male Head
Septimus Severus?

Description:

The head of the personage represented in divineguise has been repaired with heavy gold leaf. He appears to have beem enthroned to right; wears aegis about neck and holds long sceptre in right hand. Wore a laurel wreath about head and the ends of the fillet remain. He was bearded from what remains of the face. We appear to have the emperor Septimus Severus (193-211 AD) in divine guise.

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

123	-	Other Number
289	-	Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems)

Bibliography:

[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1950. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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