Gem
Ring
29-128-1980
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1980 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Jasper | Silver |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Youth | Cloak | Offering |
Description | Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) A youthful male figure clad in a long cloak stands to the right, holding an offering in his raised left hand and an uncertain object (perhaps grapes and a vine) in his lowered right. A tree appears at the left, the figure is the type used for Bonus Eventus. Graeco-Roman. |
Height | 1.1 cm |
Width | 1.4 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1980 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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