Gem
Ring
29-128-2423
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2423 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1700-1899 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Laureate head of a bearded man to right. Features have no close parallel in antiquity, but are probably intended for a poet such as homer (though not of the blind type). 18th or 19th century. |
| Height | 1.8 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2423 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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