Object Number | 29-128-940 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1899 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold | Carnelian |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Meleager | Altar | Boar | Stag | Dog | Artemis |
Description | Sommerville: Sard. Meleager, the wild-boar hunter. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case HHH. Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Meleager standing left at an altar enriched with head of a boar and head of a stag. A herm of Artemis holding two torches appears on the altar and Meleager's two dogs are at his feet. Graeco-Roman. |
Height | 2.2 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Depth | 0.4 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 940 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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