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)
Relation
British Museum (museum)
Format
gem (worked stone)
Type
paste (glass)
engraving (action)
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

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Prometheus Roman Iconography Torture of Prometheus Heracles Object Ancient