Gem Impression
53-5-252
From: Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 53-5-252 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy) |
| Date Made | Date19th century |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Plaster |
| Iconography | Ariadne |
| Description | Ariadne, daughter of Minos king of Crete, weeping on the isle of Naxos because she had been forsaken by Theseus, who had carried off her sisten Phaedra. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953 |
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