Gem
29-128-1180
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1180 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 100-299 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Paste |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Woman | Vesta? | Vestal? | Cult Image |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio, color ruby. A Vestal, with an effigy in her hand. Fine gem. Antique Pastes, Case UUU. Vermeule: Paste, imitating amethyst. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A goddess, probably Vesta, represented as a cult image seated to left, with a small figure, probably the Palladium on her extended right hand. Roman-Imperial, the design paralleling that on coins of the Ist and IInd centuries A.D. |
| Length | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1180 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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