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29-128-258

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Object Number 29-128-258
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Roman Emperor | Pertinax
Description

Sommerville: Onyx. Pertinax, nineteenth Emperor of Rome. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case O.

Vermeule: Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Laureated draped bust of the emperor Pertinax (A.D. 193) copied either from coins or from well-known bust in the British Museum (Cat., 1915).

Length 2.4 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 258 - Sommerville Number

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