Gem

29-128-1193

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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