Gem
Pendant
29-128-124
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-124 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1800-1879 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Gold | Onyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Priestess | Lotus |
| Description | Sommerville: Onyx - double cameo, Egyptian. A jeweled Sittah on the obverse and a lotus-plant on the reverse. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case H. Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo (Modern gold pendant setting with decorations in Egyptian style). Bust of a female in Iris priestess headdress facing to left. R. a flower termed by Sommerville as lotus plant. 19th Century, designed to suggest Graeco-Roman work in the Egyptian style. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 124 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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