Object Number | 29-128-1246 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Date Made | 100-199 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Aphrodite | Nymph | Bathing |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. Nymphs bathing. Second century. Antique Pastes, Case YYY. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Sardonyx. White on blue. (Unmounted) Aphrodite standing to left, bathing in a foot bath into which a nymh pours water from the left. Graeco-Roman, the composition probably based on a later Hellenistic painting or even a statue group. |
Length | 2.1 cm |
Width | 2.1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1246 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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