| Object Number |
29-128-1348 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Period |
Neoclassical |
| Date Made |
1700-1850 |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Alabaster |
| Technique |
Cameo |
| Iconography |
Titus | Triumph |
| Description |
Sommerville: Oriental alabaster. The Triumphal Entry of Titus Vespasianus into Jerusalem. Twenty-two figures are visible on this cameo. Cameos, Case MMMM. Vermeule: Reliefs from Passageways of Arch of Titus. Triumph of Titus. |
| Height |
5.91 cm |
| Width |
8.92 cm |
| Depth |
1.72 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
1348 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Berges, Dietrich K. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA.. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH, 2011. See: p. 240, fig. 146, pl. 251 |
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| Vermeule, Cornelius C. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The University Museum, 1956. See: no. 649 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 753, no. 1348, pl. 95 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems. Philadelphia: D. Biddle, 1901. See: p. 106 |
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