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Cameo with Orestes and Pylades in Tauri
European
Modern
19th century A.D.
Medium/Technique
Sardonyx
Dimensions
Diameter: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number34.1436
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Cameos
DescriptionOval, creamy white over mottled brown sardonyx cameo. Nude youth, Orestes, seated on an altar with head in hand. Before him, another nude youth, Pylades, leaning on a pillar. In the background, doors of a temple (?) decorated with fillets. A young woman, Iphigeneia (?), and soldier holding a shield stand on its steps. Thick ground line. Faded inscription in cursive letters on the altar.
Modern copy of the ancient piece 21.1221.
Modern copy of the ancient piece 21.1221.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Collection of Edward Perry Warren (d. 1928); gift of the Estate of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, December 6, 1934