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29-128-1248

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Object Number 29-128-1248
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Boar | Lioness
Description

Sommerville: antique paste. A boar attacked by a lioness. An intaglio. Antique Pastes, Case YYY.

Vermeule: Paste, Imitating banded Agate. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A boar on the right, attacked by a lioness who leaps on his back. Graeco-Roman, in the Hellenistic tradition.

Length 1.6 cm
Width 1.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1248 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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