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29-128-1262

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1262
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Hippogriff
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color sapphire. A hippogriff. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ.

Vermeule: Blue glass, probably a sealing. Cameo. (Unmounted) A griffin-like animal walking to left. The style is rather crude and the beast almost suggests those which occur on so-called Rhodian pottery in the Greek-Orientalizing Period. Graeco-Roman.

Length 3.6 cm
Width 2.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1262 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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