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29-128-877

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-877
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Carita | Woman | Food | Infant | Trees
Description

Sommerville: Pale Sard. Carita. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case CCC.

Vermeule: Pale sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) An elderly woman standing to right., extending a tray of food? to an infant in front of her. A tree curves around composition to left. Graeco-Roman, perhaps with Bacchic connections.

Height 0.8 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 877 - Sommerville Gem Number

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