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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