Object Number | 29-128-1209 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Aphrodite Anadyomene | Venus | Marine Shell |
Description | Sommerville: Antique iridescent glass. Venus on a shell. Antique Pastes, Case WWW. Vermeule: Paste, Iridescent glass. Cameo. (Unmounted) Aphrodite Anadyomene, half draped and with her long tresses in her hands, represented as standing looking to right, on a large scalloped shell. Graeco-Roman. |
Length | 2.3 cm |
Width | 2.1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1209 - Sommerville Number |
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