Gem Impression

53-5-252

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 53-5-252
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Date Made Date19th century
Section Mediterranean
Materials Plaster
Iconography Ariadne
Description

Ariadne, daughter of Minos king of Crete, weeping on the isle of Naxos because she had been forsaken by Theseus, who had carried off her sisten Phaedra.

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953

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