Gem
29-128-1215
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1215 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Period | Republican Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Warrior | Lady | Ulysses | Penelope |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. Ulysses and Penelope. Beautifully striated, emerald tint with iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case WWW. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating banded Agate. Intaglio. (Unmounted). An elderly warrior standing to right, clasping the hands of a lady standing to left. Sommerville identifies the two as Odysseus and Penelope and this seems quite logical. The gem appears to be Italic, of the period of the Roman Republic. |
| Length | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1215 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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