| Object Number | 29-128-32 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1400-1599 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Jasper |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Dido |
| Description | Sommerville: Jasper. Dido, Princess of Tyre in Phoenicia; afterwards she founded Carthage. Vermeule: Greenish Jasper. Cameo. (unmounted) Bust of woman? to right., wearing a radiate crown. Sommerville identifies subject as "Dido, princess of Tryre in Phoenicia," she afterward founded Carthage. Design seems to be copied from some ancient coins perhaps from a Roman imperial portrait of the III A.D. Probably XVth or XVIth work. |
| Length | 2.3 cm |
| Width | 1.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 32 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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