Object Number | 29-128-1220 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Alexandria | Egypt (uncertain) |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass Paste |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Head | Eros |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste cameo. An Angel's head in clouds. Fragment. Antique Pastes, Case XXX. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating pale yellow Sard: Broken on all edges. (Unmounted) Head of a chubby Eros facing. A leafy ? border remains on the right and below. Graeco-Roman, in a style associated with the workshops of Alexandria. |
Length | 2.5 cm |
Width | 2.3 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1220 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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