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29-128-1156
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1156 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | end 2nd century BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Prado | Scepter | Shield | Pegasus | Roma | Shield | Pegasus | Spear |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color sapphire and emerald, striated with white. The Emperor Prabo, with sceptre in hand; on his shield a minute intaglio of Pegasus mounted. Antique Pastes, Case TTT. Vermeule: Banded glass paste intaglio, colors sapphire and emerald striated with white. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Helmeted bust, probably of Dea Roma facing to left, a shield over her left shoulder, a spear over the right. Pegasus on shield. Roman Imperial, the representation similar to that on coins of the IInd half of the IIIrd Cent. A.D. |
| Length | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1156 - Sommerville Number | GL? (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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