Gem
| Object Number: | 29-128-557 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Phoenician Roman |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Period: | Archaic Greek Period Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made: | 50 BC-AD 400 |
| Early Date: | -50 |
| Late Date: | 400 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Onyx |
| Technique: | Intaglio |
| Iconography: | Minerva Athena |
| Height: | 1.4 cm |
| Width: | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 557 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Sommerville: Onyx. Intaglio. Minerva Protectrice. Archaic. Phoenician Amulets, Seals, Scarabei, Etc, Case GG.
Vermeule: Onyx. Intaglio. (Unmounted). The Armed Athena, brandishing shield and spear, walking to right. This version of the subject appears on a number of coins of Domitian, who claimed Athena as his protectress. Graeco-Roman.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Cameo and Intaglio: Engraved Gems from the Sommerville Collection (30 Nov 1956 - 31 Mar 1957) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1956. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 242 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art.. Maxwell Sommerville. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 703, no. 557, pl. 46 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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