| Object Number | 29-128-1207 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Lion |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo, color sapphire. A Lion, emblem of power. Superb iridescence. Antique Pastes, Case WWW. Vermeule: Glass paste, very iridescent color originally bluish green. Cameo. (Unmounted) A lion walking to left. He may be wearing a radiate crown. He is identical with those animals occuring on the reverse of coins of the Emperor Caracalla (A.D. 211-217). Graeco-Roman. |
| Length | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1207 - Sommerville Number |
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