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Cameo with head of Medusa
Greco-Roman
Late Republican or Early Augustan Period
1st century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Banded agate
Dimensions
Length: 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.761
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Cameos
DescriptionIvory over grey banded agate cameo fragment. Head of Medusa in profile to right. Head bent down with snake and wing at temple. Rows of curls along the hairline, falling down the nape, and below the cut at the neck. Profile damaged and filed down.
ProvenanceBy 1897, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 280 (said to have been found at Pergamon); 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.