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29-128-272

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-272
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Priam | Achilles | Hector
Description

Sommerville: Pale Onyx. Priam asking achilles for the Body of Hector. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Q.

Vermeule: Cameo. Sardonyx. Priam imploring Achilles for the body of Hector after a well-known relief (by Thorvaldson Canova?)

Exhibit Catalogue: Onyx Cameo. Priam imploring Achilles for body of Hector after a well-known relief by Thorvaldson Canova(?).

Priam imploring Achilles for body of Hector after a well-known relief by Nathaniel Marchant around 1784 based on an Attic sarcophagus relief in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

Height 6 cm
Width 5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 272 - Sommerville Number

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