| Object Number | 29-128-1192 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Phaethon | Helios' Chariot | Heliadae | Apollo Helios | Chariot | Tellus | Oceanus |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique iridescent glass intaglio. The Fall of Phaethon, at the moment when the horses are becoming unmanageable. Antique Pastes, Case VVV. Vermeule: Glass: antique iridescent. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Helios or Apollo driving the chariot of the sun. The cloak of the heavens flutters behind his head, and Tellus (earth) and Oceanus recline below. The scene copies some Graeco-Roman painting, the arrangement of the horses left and right recalling mosaics and coins of the period ca. 150-275 A.D. Graeco-Roman. |
| Length | 3.2 cm |
| Width | 2.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1192 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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