Alexandria?
- Title:
- Alexandria?
- Collection:
- Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
- Date:
- 19th century
- ID Number:
- GI_02_026
- Accession Number:
- 02_2_0026
- Winckelmann No.:
- 26
- File Name:
- GI_02_026.jpg
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- casting (process)
paste (glass) - Subject:
- personification
- Description:
- A figure holding a spear in their left hand, and receiving a basket? from a smaller figure in the right hand. They are reclined on a bearded face, with fish underneath them. There is a shield on the right of the gem, and a tree on the left. There are 2 horses, a cow, and a goat? in the background, as well as three unidentifiable objects at the top. Is this Alexandria or someone else? What do all the animals mean?
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.