GEM DETAIL
PERICLES and ASPASIA
1792 Catalogue Description
Pericles from the preceding Terme and Aspasia from a Terme found at Castro Novo near Civita Vecchia in the same year as that of Pericles the names are on both Termes which authenticates those portraits and were unknown till this discovery they are engraved in the same characters on the exergue of the gem Both these Termes are in the Museum Pio Clementinum Schinos is the squilla sea onion or leek
| Material |
Sardonyx |
|---|---|
| Gem Type | |
| Original Owner |
HENRY BANKES Esq |
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