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There are 33 objects for which Decoration contains → gem
2007.10.2.242 A tall and slender female figure carrying a bow and depicted with a stag, possibly identifying the figure as Artemis. The unusual dress might suggest that the gem showed an unknown female depicted as Artemis.
2007.10.2.260 (A fraction of a gem) a pair of legs are shown with an ancient Greek inscription to the left of them.
2007.10.2.341 A dog lying down, viewed from above, raised from the surface of the gem cast.
2007.9.1.56 Displays a very thin human figure in a walking pose, facing right. There is a large, unidentifiable shape behind the figure, but this may be due to a fault with the plaster cast or the original gem.
2007.9.2.1 Displays a winged woman in flight, holding flowers in her hands, and carrying a naked child on her back who is holding a torch aloft in his right hand. (Box Index = Personification of Morning/Day). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 1
2007.9.2.10 Displays a man, wearing armour and a wreath and carrying a spear, and a winged woman who is leaning forward, riding in a four-horse chariot. All horses are rearing up. Surrounded by a leafy border. Layer 5, Layer 1, Gem 10
2007.9.2.11 Displays a naked man with fairly long hair reclining in his seat, whilst a smaller winged figure of indeterminate gender stands in front of him, holding a bowl up to their mouth. (Box Index = Bacchus giving a drink to Love). Tray 5, layer 1, Gem 11
2007.9.2.12 Displays a young woman with her head covered, apparently airborne without wings, and holding a cross in her left hand, whilst a cherub in the lower right corner leans on his trumpet. (Box Index = A happy soul flying to the sky). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 12
2007.9.2.13 Displays a seated woman writing on a tablet, a lyre at her feet, whilst a winged figure, a small owl sitting behind his left foot, holds a small jug above a burning oil lamp. A latin inscription is beneath them. (Box Index = Virtue assissted by Genius)Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 13
2007.9.2.14 Displays the head of a young man, profile facing left, surrounded by writing. Box 5, Layer 1, Gem 14
2007.9.2.15 Displays the head of a young man, profile facing left. (Box Index = The Knight Thorwaldsen). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 15
2007.9.2.2 Displays the seated figures of a man and a woman on the left hand side, with a shield bearing the image of two arrows in the foreground, whilst a mostly naked soldier weraing a helmet and cloak and carrying a spear stands on the right hand side. (Box Index = Hektor reprimanding Paris). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 2
2007.9.2.3 Displays a winged woman in flight, her head bowed, and carrying two naked children in her arms who appear to be asleep. (Box Index = Personification of Night). Tray 5, layer 1, Gem 3
2007.9.2.4 Displays the seated figure of a woman on the left hand side, her arms outstretched, being handed a child by Hermes, standing on the right. (Box Index = Mercury giving baby Bacchus to a Nymph of the covern of Nysa). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 4
2007.9.2.5 Displays four human figures. From left to right: a man with his head bowed and a hammer raised in his right hand, whilst holding a spear or an arrow in his left; a seated woman, her head turned away to the right, holding an arrow in her right hand, pointed down into a bowl she is holding in her left; a cherub, holding a long pole, his left arm outstretched and looking upwards at the figure behind him; a naked man wearing a helmet and holding a bundle of cloth and an arrow, and looking down at the cherub. (Box Index = Vulcan, Venus, Cupid, and Mars).Tray 5, Layer 1, gem 5
2007.9.2.6 Displays a mostly naked woman, her lower half draped in cloth, who is seated and holding the right arm of a cherub standing in front of her. A small flowering plant, a bee and two birds are also visible. (Box Index = Venus with crying Cupid who has been stung by a bee). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 6
2007.9.2.7 Displays a winged man, crouching down on one knee, a quiver of arrows on his back and a bow at his feet are visible, whilst a woman reclines on the ground, only her lower half covered in cloth, resting her upper body agaist his knee. (Box Index = Amore e Psiche or Love and Psyche). Box 5, Layer 1, Gem 7
2007.9.2.8 Displays a seated naked man, one hand resting on the handle of a club, the other holding a bowl, whilst a woman stands in front of him, holding a small jug in her raised right hand. (Box Index = Hercules and Hebe). Tray 5, Layer 1, Gem 8
2007.9.2.9 Displays three cherubs in flight with their arms around one another. (Box Index = Group of Cupids). Box 5, layer 1, Gem 9
2009.10.2.27 Front view of a gem cast showing the pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Jupiter Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus. Number 27
2009.10.2.28 Front view of a gem cast showing the pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Jupiter Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus. Number 28
2009.10.2.29 Front view of a gem cast showing the pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Jupiter Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus. Number 29.
2009.10.2.30 Front view of a gem cast showing the pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Jupiter Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus. Number 30
2009.10.2.31 Front view of a gem cast showing the pantheistic head has the ram's horns of Jupiter Ammon, the modius headdress of Serapis, and the rays of Sol Invictus. In background very faint merperson or fish holding trident with tail and two letters L and Z. Number 31
2009.10.2.34 Front view of a gem cast showing Serapis and Isis. Number 34.
2009.10.2.384 Front view of a gem cast showing Medea driving her chariot pulled my her drakones, and there is a male figure in front of them . Number 40
2009.10.2.69 Right profile view of a woman with curly hair, adorned with a necklace. Gem Cast Number - 1
2009.8.134 Profile of a man with a beard ans wavy hair wearing a hat, looking left. Gem cast is red. Cast number: 71
2009.8.142 Satyr holding a baby wearing a fur. Probably Silenos with baby Dionysos. Cast number: forth gem in the last row
2009.8.143 Profile of a child with wings, maybe Eros, looking right. Cast number: fifth gem in the last row
2009.8.144 Profile of a woman wearing a hat, looking right. Cast number: sixth gem in the last row
2009.8.145 Profile of a man with a beard and wavy hair wearing a wreath, looking right. Cast number: seventh gem in the last row.
2009.8.146 Profile of a man with short hair, looking left. Cast number: last gem in that row.
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