Gem
29-128-1190
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1190 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Othryades |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color pale sard. Othryades, a Spartan, one of the three hundred selected to fight with three hundred Argives for the possession of Thyrea. Antique Pastes, Case VVV. Vermeule: Paste, pale color Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) "Othyades, a Spartan, one of the 300 selected to fight with 300 Argives for the possession of Thyrea." Graeco-Roman, in imitation of the design popular on late Etruscan and Italo-Estruscan gems. |
Length | 1.4 cm |
Width | 1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1190 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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