cameo
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.1804
- Description
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Translucent grey-white glass paste relief gem: nude Heracles lifting Antaeus from the ground, killing him.
- Production date
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1stC-2ndC
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1stC
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.85 centimetres
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Width: 1.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For the iconography, compare a nicolo intaglio in The Hague: Maaskant-Kleibrink (1978), p262, no. 700.
- Location
- On display (G1/fc7/Townley cab1/dr2)
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.1804