Object Number | 29-128-1193 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | South Italian (uncertain) |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Late Hellenistic Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Achilles | Neoptolemus | Ulysses |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color pale sard. Achilles leaving his son Neoptolemus, accompanied by Ulysses. Fine gem. Antique Pastes, Case VVV. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Greek warrior flanked by a youth and another figure: Achilles leaving his son Neoptolenus, accompanied by Odysseus. Late Hellenistic; southern Italy? |
Length | 1.4 cm |
Width | 1.1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1193 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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