Object Number | 29-128-65 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1850 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Chalcedony | Onyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Dacia |
Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. Personification of the conqured Province of Dacia. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case D. Vermeule: Chalcedony Onyx. Cameo. Dacia. Design copied from Keystone of a Roman triumphal arch of Trajan probably the one at the entrance to his Forum in Rome. The keystone has been known in various Roman collections since the early XVIth century and is now in the Palazzo de Conservatore in Rome. |
Length | 4.4 cm |
Width | 3.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 65 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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