Gem

Ring

29-128-2273

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-2273
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Jasper | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Bird | Cornucopia | Dolphin
Description

Vermeule: Green Jasper. Intaglio. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Above: Birds on cornucopiae, pecking at a basket of flowers. Below: Two dolphins swimming towards each other. Graeco-Roman, the type of subject occuring frequently on funerary urns.

Height 0.9 cm
Width 1.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2273 - Sommerville Gem Number

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