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29-128-1219

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1219
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Date Made 100-200 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Relief
Iconography Warrior | Trophies | Prisoner | Shields | Spears | Banners | Long Swords
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste. A Warrior returning with his trophies. An important fragment of a large cameo covered with blue enamel. Antique Pastes, Case XXX.

Vermeule: Ancient paste, covered with blue enamel. Cameo. Fragment of a triumpal scene, a female prisoner at the right, seated beneath a trophy, of shields, banners, spears, and a long sword and a draco or carnyx visible beside the prisoner's head, at the lower right. A rare and important fragment, probably dated ca A.D. 180, from parallels on the column of Marcus Aurelius.

Length 7.43 cm
Width 7.3 cm
Depth 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1219 - Sommerville Number

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