| Object Number | 29-128-200 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Scipio Africanus |
| Description | Sommerville: Pale Sardonyx. Scipio Africanus, so called on account of his conquests in Africa. He destroyed Carthage. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case L. Vermeule: Banded agate. Cameo. (Unmounted). Bust of a man of the later Roman Republic, facing to right. The features are termed by Sommerville those of Scipio Africanus, are copied from a marble portrait of an unknown person (compare the so-called Cicero in the Uffigi Gallery, Florence). Neo-Classic. |
| Length | 2.1 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 200 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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