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Two-Piece Cast Gem

Date

second half of 1st century B.C.

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

A scene from the Trojan War: Diomedes and Odysseus with the Palladion, the ancient cult statue of Athena in the city of Troy. Diomedes, nude with helmet, kneels on an altar; he holds a sword and the Palladion. Behind him, Odysseus, wearing a pilos and carrying a sword, emerges from the curtained doorway of a sanctuary; groundline. The top of the gem is banded green/white/blue/white/green, and the bottom green/blue/green. The gem was once in a fragmentary silver ring, which did not come to this Museum. The white gypsum backing that held the gem in place is preserved on its rear surface.

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