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29-128-1241

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1241
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Aphrodite | Venus | Nymph
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. The Couch of Venus, nymph in attendance. Antique Pastes, Case YYY.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Emerald. Intaglio (Unmounted) Aphrodite reclining to left, on a couch. She raises her left hand to Ares who approaches from the left. Graeco-Roman, the composition undoubtedly based on a painting or a relief of the later Hellenistic period.

Length 1.4 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1241 - Sommerville Number

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