Gem

Ring

29-128-2430

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2430
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1800-1899
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx | Silver
Technique Cameo
Iconography Woman
Description

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Modern Silver Ring Setting) A Greek woman of the IVth B.C. style standing to right, pulling her ample cloak about her. The design seems to be copied from a Neo-attic marble relief, a Tanagra type terracotta figurine, or one of the figures on the so-called Sarcophagus of the mourning women in Istanbul. Probably 19th century.

Height 2 cm
Width 3.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2430 - Sommerville Gem Number

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