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Opaque White on Opaque Blue Glass Cameo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Opaque White on Opaque Blue Glass Cameo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011
Title: Opaque white on opaque blue glass cameo

Medium; Technique: Glass, opaque white on black

Culture: Roman

Period: Late Republican or Imperial

Date: 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D.

Dimensions: L. 4.3 cm

Classification: Gems

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.194.16


Description:

Two youths and two women

The scene may represent the return of Orestes, in which case the seated youth would be Orestes, the other Pylades, the women Elektra and the nurse, or perhaps Clytemnestra and Elektra.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

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