Object Number | 29-128-548 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Phoenician | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Date Made | 100-299 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sard |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Siren | Aglaopheme | Chains | Trumpet | Victory | Wreaths | Trumpet |
Description | Sommerville: Sard. Intaglio. Archaic. The Siren Aglaopheme, who lived with Thelxiepeia on the island of Anthemusa, off the coast of Italy. Phoenician Amulets, Seals, Scarabei, Etc, Case GG. Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted).. A figure of Victory, half-draped and holding a filleted wreath in the lowered right hand, a trumpet in the left, stands to right. Graeco-Roman, a masterpiece of the II or III A.D. with stylistic parallels on Roman coins of the period A.D. 150-200. Graeco-Roman: Roman Imperial. |
Height | 2.2 cm |
Width | 3.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 548 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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