Object Number | 29-128-62 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Imperial Roman Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Quartz |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Woman | Agrippina? |
Description | Sommerville: Quartz. a curious pebble with fine cameo portrait of Agrippina, 4th wife of Claudius. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case D. Vermeule: Quartz. Cameo. An irregular pebble which has been carved with a draped portrait bust of a woman of the early imperial period, facing left. Sommerville suggets Agrippina, the wife of Claudius, and mother of Nero, a possible identification considering her coin portraits. |
Length | 3.3 cm |
Width | 2.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 62 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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