Gem

Scarab

Ring

29-128-1164

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1164
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Paste | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste. A Scarabeus. Rare. Antique Pastes, Case UUU.

Vermeule: Glass Paste. Intaglio? (Ring, but not finger ring) Gilt, perhaps ancient. Surface too decorated for identification. Perhaps merely undecorated scarab. Graeco-Roman.

Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1164 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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