Gem
29-128-1350
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1350 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Alabaster |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Parthians | Prisoners |
| Description | Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. A Group of Jewish Prisoners. Their arms are pinioned. (From the Zanetti collection). Cameos, Case MMMM. Vermeule: Oriental alabaster. Cameo. Group of Parthian prisoners after one of the bases of the Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1351 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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