Gem
Pendant
29-128-157
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-157 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony | Onyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Tears of Achilles |
| Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx - The Grief of Achilles at the Death of his fiend Patroclus. A Greek Cameo. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case J. Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Modern Gold pendant setting). Neo-Classic. "Tears of Achilles" copy of a fragmentary cameo of long Neo-Classic pedigree now in Museum of Fine Arts Boston. |
| Length | 5.4 cm |
| Width | 3.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 157 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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