Untitled gem
Item
- Title
- Untitled gem
- Description
- “Gem of glass paste imitating sard, engraved with Herakles with a bow, lion-skin and club; before him sits Prometheus, draped about the legs, with his hands chained above his head.”
- Identifier
- Promethean_Iconography_5
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- circa 0-200 C.E.
- Spatial Coverage
- Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) See all items with this value
- Relation
- British Museum (museum)
- Format
- gem (worked stone)
- Subject
- Prometheus (Greek deity)
- Torture of Prometheus (Greek narrative)
- Roman iconography
- Heracles (Greco-Roman character)
- Source
- Gem from The British Museum
- Rights
- The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
- Copyright
- Item sets
- Promethean Iconography
- Media
Untitled_gem