Gem
29-128-1131
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1131 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Hermes | Mercury |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique Iridescent Glass. A lion's head. Beautiful iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case SSS. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Chalcedony. Iridescent. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Hermes seated to left, on a rock. He appears to be holding his purse in the right hand, his herald staff in the felt. The design is based on Hellenistic representations paralleling the seated figure in bronze in Naples and certain Campanian wall paintings. Graeco-Roman. |
| Length | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1131 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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