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29-128-1168
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1168 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Imperial Roman Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Mercury | Eros | Bow? | Quiver? |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color deep sard. Mercury. Antique Pastes, Case UUU. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Eros walking to right, a wreath and an uncertain object looking like a bow case in either hand. His quiver filled with arrows is slung over his shoulder. Graeco-Roman, in the decorative tradition of the early Roman Imperial period. |
Length | 1.2 cm |
Width | 1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1168 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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