Gem

29-128-548

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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