Object Number | 29-128-1124 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Bacchanalian Head | Maenad? |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste. A beautiful intaglio of a Bacchanalian Head, only visible to a practiced eye. Fine iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case SSS. Vermeule: Antique paste, imitating Emerald. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Ideal head, difficult to make out, but perhaps representing a Maenad. Graeco-Roman. |
Length | 3.4 cm |
Width | 2.3 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1124 - Sommerville Gem Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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