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| 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: | 1.4cm |
| Width: | 1.1cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 557 - Sommerville Gem Number 242 - Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems) |
Description
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.
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. | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference | |
| [Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Catalogue Raisonne of the Sommerville Collection of Engraved Gems: A Descriptive List of Cameos, Intaglios, Seals, Rings, Amulets, Talismans, etc. Forming a Compend of Greek and Roman Mythology and Classical History. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 703, no. 557, pl. 46 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference |
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