Gem

29-128-580

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-580
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Culture Byzantine
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Western Europe (uncertain) | Venice | Italy
Period Medieval
Date Made 1200-1299
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste | Enamel
Technique Cameo
Iconography Virgin Mary | Child | Inscription
Description

Sommerville: Antique red enamel. Interesting Byzantine cameo. The Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus, with inscription in raised letters, sixth century A.D. Byzantine, Case II.

Vermeule: Antique red enamel, Paste? Cameo. (Unmounted). Virgin and child. Inscription in latin letters left and right. Medieval, probably Western European.

Height 2.8 cm
Width 2.4 cm
Depth 0.4 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 580 - Sommerville Gem Number

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