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29-128-1341

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1341
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Alabaster
Technique Cameo
Iconography Trajan
Description

Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. Trajan charging on the Dacians, crushing and destroying them. Cameos, Case KKKK.

Vermeule: Cameo. Oriental alabaster. Copy of relief from "Great Trajanic Frieze" incorporated in passageway and on ends of the attic of the Arch of Constantine, Rome.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1341 - Sommerville Gem Number

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