| Object Number |
29-128-963 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Period |
Neoclassical |
| Date Made |
1700-1850 |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Gold | Onyx |
| Technique |
Cameo |
| Iconography |
Lucius Verus |
| Description |
Sommerville: Onyx. Lucius Verus, seventeenth Emperor of Rome, A.D. 161-169. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case III. Vermeule: Onyx. Cameo. (Gold ring setting). Bust of Lucius Verus left. |
| Height |
2.5 cm |
| Width |
1.7 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
963 - 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. 170, fig. 7, pl. 43 |
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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. 610 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 732, no. 963 |
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