Gem
| Object Number: | 29-128-1147 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Roman |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Period: | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Paste |
| Technique: | Cameo |
| Iconography: | Neptune Philosopher |
| Length: | 3.1 cm |
| Width: | 2 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 1147 - Sommerville Gem Number GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
Description
Sommerville: Antique paste, color lapis lazuli; cameo once gilded. Neptune. Antique Pastes, Case TTT.
Vermeule: Glass Paste. Cameo. Lapis Lazuli color with traces of gilding surviving. Head of an elderly bearded Greek, probably a philosopher, facing to right. Graeco-Roman.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Cameo and Intaglio: Engraved Gems from the Sommerville Collection (30 Nov 1956 - 31 Mar 1957) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1956. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 270 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art.. Maxwell Sommerville. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 741, no. 1147 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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