Object Number | 29-128-1154 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Bacchus | Nymph | Silenus | Nymph |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. Bacchus and a Nymph. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermeule: Glass paste imitating Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Silenus standing to right, with his left arm about shoulders of a nymph. He holds a pedum in his right hand. She wears a cloak about her shoulders and over her left arm. (See 1255) Graeco-Roman imitating a Hellenistic composition. Sommerville - ident. as Bacchus and Nymph |
Length | 2.3 cm |
Width | 2.1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1154 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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