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Summary
Cameo pendant (head of Medusa MG 098)
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| Photographer |
Justin Gawke |
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| Title |
Cameo pendant (head of Medusa MG 098) |
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| Description |
A very large cameo pendant showing the Head of Medusa in sardonyx set in a metal frame. The head is carved in relief, showing the face surrounded by flowing hair and serpents. The frame has a suspension loop at top. |
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| Date | 9 July 2020, 00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Mineral -Silica - Quartz - Sardonyx, Metal - Silver (possibly) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H 8 x W 5.5 x D 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Collections and Exhibitions |
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| Accession number |
MG 098 |
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| Object history | File of material relating to a cameo pendant, head of Medusa. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); letter, and photocopy of same (24 July 1958), from Professor Doctor Hans Wentzel, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart Lehrstuhl Kunstgeschichte, Stuttgart, to John Hunt, Senior. Writes, ‘As to the two calcedony cameos (not clear that this letter relates to present object; it could pertain to either MG 097 or MG 098) in your possession I would be very interested to see photographs or plaster casts. The example on the Basel Cross that you mention, it really could be an early medieval imitation of antique phalera… Nobody has up to now put the question if these great heads in late antique fashion could perhaps be early medieval’; postcard, and photocopy thereof (19 September 1958), from Wentzel to John Hunt, Senior, comments that cameo is absolutely unique (not clear that this postcard relates to present object; it could also pertain to either MG 097 or MG 098); note (date unspecified), and photocopy of same, which reads ‘large cameo from the collection Count Erbach’; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (10 July 1996) containing comments made about object by Lindsay Allason-Jones, Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She attributes it to either Roman or Renaissance times; two black and white photographs (dates unspecified) of present object; another black and white photograph [of similar object] (date unspecified); card (date unspecified) which gives basic descriptive information about object, for example, medium and dimensions and states, ‘largest known cameo’. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Public Domain via Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 12:20, 10 July 2020 | | 2,574 × 2,323 (3.81 MB) | Friends of Hunt Museum | pattypan 18.02 |
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