Gem

Ring

29-128-968

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-968
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Western Europe
Period Early Middle Ages
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Horatius | Bridge
Description

Sommerville: Onyx. Horatius defending the bridge. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case III.

Vermeule: Onyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Scene identified as Horatius defending the bridge. Workmanship appears to be of late Antiquity or some classical revival in the earlier Middle Ages.

Height 1.6 cm
Width 1.4 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 968 - Sommerville Gem Number

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