Gem
Stickpin
29-128-2253
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2253 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1800-1899 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Hebe? | Maenad? | Altar | Eagle | Bowl | Oinochoe |
| Description | Vermeule: Chalcedony (or pale sard). Cameo. (Modern gold stick-pin setting). Hebe (or a Maenad) walking to right, looking back at an altar on which an eagle is drinking from a bowl. She holds the edge of her veil with the left hand, an oenochoe with the right. Italian, XIXth century. |
| Height | 2.5 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2253 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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