intaglio

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Object Type
Museum number: 1856,0425.20
Description: Intaglio; green jasper; two sheep standing to right with three palm-branches.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-4thC
Materials
Technique: engraved; intaglio
Dimensions: Length: 0.54 inches
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Perret, Les Catacombes de Rome, iv, pl. xvi, fig. 23. See also Smith and Cheetham, Dict. of Christian Antiquities, i, p. 717. Published: DACL, Paris, col 852-3, no 251, fig 5119.
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (23); Dalton 1915 / Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography in the British Museum. (524); Spier 2007 / Late Antique and Early Christian Gems (X66); Marzinzik 2013 / Masterpieces: Early medieval art (2); Finney 2003 / Abbé James Hamilton: Antiquary, Patron of the Arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (21); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.20)
Location: On display (G41/dc8/sA)
Subjects: mammal (sheep); plant (palm)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0425.20
Conservation: Treatment; Treatment: 08 Jul 2014

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