Gem

29-128-1394

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1394
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period | Post Classical
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass Paste | Soapstone (uncertain)
Technique Cameo
Iconography Poseidon | Marine Shell | Trident? | Scepter?
Description

Sommerville: Neptune and other figures. Persian Seals, Case UUUU.

Vermeule: Soapstone? Cameo. (Broken irregularly on all sides but part of oval ring remaining) Symbolic dominion of Poseidon who stands on a wave-like rock in lowr center holding a shell in left hand and a scepter vertically in right. Graeco-Roman.

Height 9 cm
Width 6.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1394 - Sommerville Gem Number

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