Gem

Ring

29-128-917

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-917
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold | Sardonyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Heracles | Erymanthian Boar | Heracles | Cretan Bull
Description

Sommerville: Sard. Hercules transporting the Erymanthian boar from Mount Erymanthus to Eurystheus in Mycenae - the fourth of the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case FFF.

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Herakles walking to right carrying the Cretan bull over his shoulders. Graeco-Roman.

Height 1.2 cm
Width 1.6 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 917 - Sommerville Gem Number

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