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29-128-454

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-454
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Renaissance
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate
Technique Cameo
Iconography Parthian Slave
Description

Sommerville: Black Agate. A Parthian Slave. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Z.

Vermeule: Black Agate. Ren. Prt. Cameo. (In base metal pin? Setting). Head termed by Sommerville that of a Parthian slave, facing.

Height 1.2 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 454 - Sommerville Gem Number

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