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Cameo with Athena
Greco-Roman
Late Republican or Early Augutan Period
late 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.
Medium/Technique
Glass
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 0.02 L.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.765
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Cameos
DescriptionOval blue glass cameo fragment. Upper half of Athena, seen frontally with head in three-quarter to right, brandishing a spear and raising a shield. She wears a girdled chiton and crested Corinthian helmet. Only upper half preserved. Pitted and iridescent surface.
ProvenanceBy 1897, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 78; 1898, Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1898, sold by Warren to the MFA for $69,618.13 [see note]. (Accession Date: September 20, 1898)
Note: This is the total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
Note: This is the total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.