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29-128-1285

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1285
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italo-Etruscan
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Ceres | Grain | Eagle | Cult Image | Priapus | Ritual Scene
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste. Ceres. A very fine and beautiful intaglio. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ.

Vermeule: Intaglio. Glass paste, imitating sard. (Unmounted) Female kneeling to right, at a bowl. Two stalks of grain grow beside her and an eagle with a sceptre flies above. A small cult image, perhaps of Priapus, appears to emerge from the pot. A ritual scene. Italo-Etruscan.

Length 1.4 cm
Width 1.1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1285 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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