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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