Gem

Object Number:

29-128-329

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Period:

Neoclassical

Date Made:

1700-1850

Early Date:

1700

Late Date:

1850

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Sardonyx

Technique:

Cameo

Iconography:

Aelius Caesar
Dionysos
Bacchus

Description:

Sardonyx. Cameo. (Broken across bottom to imitate antique work). Bust, probably representing the young Bacchus, facing to right. Head is identified by Sommerville as a portrait of Aelius Caesar, adopted son of Hadrian.

Height:

2.2cm

Width:

1.9cm

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

329	-	Sommerville Gem Number
455	-	Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems)

Bibliography:

[Book] Berges, Dietrich. 2011. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA. : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 188, Fig. 43, Pl. 92

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

[Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1877. Engraved Gems : Their Place in the History of Art.

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