Gem
29-128-883
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-883 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Archaic Greek Period | Classical Greek Period | Hellenistic Period (uncertain) |
| Date Made | 399-300 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sard |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Nike |
| Description | Sommerville: Sard. A Figure of Victory. Archaic Intaglio. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case CCC. Vermeule: Green Jasper or Sard? Intaglio. (Unmounted) Broken across middle and repaired. Nike seen from back walking to left. She holds an object resembling a sheated sword or panzonium in her extended left hand. Greek, perhaps of IVth century B.C. or at least of the Hellenistic period. |
| Height | 1.1 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 883 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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