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Gem with Nereid Riding a Sea Monster
View through Harvard Museums
Oval gem with a convex surface.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Damon Mezzacappa
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