cameo

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Object Type
Museum number: 1874,0701.1
Description: Cameo; green jasper; Virgin standing and holding the child in left arm; inscribed; pierced with two holes at top; crude workmanship.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 11thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Smyrna
Materials
Technique: engraved; pierced
Dimensions: Length: 35.20 millimetres; Thickness: 10 millimetres; Width: 20 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Obtained in Smyrna. Pierced with two holes at the top. The workmanship very rude.
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 (114); 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. (13)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Virgin Mary; Named in inscription & portrayed: Jesus Christ
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1874
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1874,0701.1

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