Gem Impression
53-5-56
From: Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 53-5-56 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy) |
| Date Made | 19th century |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Plaster |
| Iconography | Mercury | Jupiter | Argus | Io |
| Description | Mercury, by order of Jupiter, having sent Argus to sleep with the sound of his lyre, cut off his head with the herpe, and carried off the heifer Io |
| Height | 4.5 cm |
| Width | 4.7 cm |
| Depth | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953 |
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