| Object Number | 29-128-238 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1800-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Onyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Woman |
| Description | Sommerville: Pale onyx. Incognito. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case N. Vermeule: Pale Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Head of a woman of Grecian type facing to right, hair done up in a sphendrone. Perhaps a portrait of a lady of the earlier 19th, represented in the style of goddesses on South Italian and Sicilian Greek coins of the 4th B.C. |
| Length | 2.2 cm |
| Width | 1.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 238 - Sommerville Number |
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