Gem

Ring

29-128-926

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-926
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo | Intaglio
Iconography Cock | Snake
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. A Cameo. In relief and in intaglio; the outer serpent is cameo, in relief; the cock, etc., in the centre, intaglio. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case GGG.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo & Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) In center a cock standing to right., a snake in front. Whole surrounded by snake biting his own tail, in white cameo. Graeco-Roman.

Height 2.3 cm
Width 1.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 926 - Sommerville Gem Number

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