| Object Number | 29-128-277 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1700-1799 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Onyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Apollo? |
| Description | Sommerville: Onyx. A Divinity. Antique fragment of first century. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Q. Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Left side broken away. Laureate, draped bust of a youthful male divinity, perhaps Apollo, facing to left. the hair of the back of the head is done in a curiously non-antique "sappho" - type sakkos. 18th century in skillful imitation of a Roman cameo of ca A.D. 50 |
| Length | 2.1 cm |
| Width | 1.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 277 - Sommerville Number |
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