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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