Object Number | 29-128-935 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
Date Made | 50 BCE-150 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold | Sardonyx |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Silenus | Wreath | Staff |
Description | Sommerville: Sard. Silenus. A fine antique intaglio. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case GGG. Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Imitating an ancient ring. Silenus walking to right, a wreath and a staff in his extended hands. Graeco-Roman, the design paralleling that on terracottas of the period 50 B.C. - 150 A.D. Graeco-Roman. |
Height | 1 cm |
Width | 1.4 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 935 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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