Gem
Pendant
Scarab
29-128-1819
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1819 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Etruria |
| Date Made | 400 BCE to 300 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Carnelian | Brass |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Apollo? | Eros? | Pothos? | Ionic Column | Laurel Bush | Patera | Swan |
| Description | Vermeule: Intaglio. Carnelian. Modern gilt pendant setting. Youthful male figure standing to left holding a laurel branch against an Ionic column, extending his left hand, a goose at his feet: Apollo, Eros or Pothos (Desire). Late Italo-Etruscan. Apollo in 3/4 view to the left; leans on short column, foreground with laurel bush, patera, swan; hatched border; modern brass mount |
| Length | 1.6 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1819 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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