Gem
Pendant
29-128-2154
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2154 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1800-1899 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony | Onyx | Gold | Enamel |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Young Man | Achilles? | Hector | Old Man | Odysseus? | Priam? |
| Description | Vermeule: Chalcedony Onyx. Cameo. (Gilt and enamel pendant setting) Jugate busts of a young man (perhaps Achilles or Hestor) facing right, wearing an elaborate helmet and carrying shield; behind helmeted draped bust of an older man wearing a cap which suggests that he is either Odysseus or more likely Priam. 19th, in imitation of a gem of the Alexandrius Hellenistic or Graeco-Roman periods. |
| Height | 6.4 cm |
| Width | 5.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2154 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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