Gem

Ring

29-128-1980

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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