Gem
Ring
29-128-2407
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-2407 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Post Classical |
Date Made | 1650-1750 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sardonyx | Silver |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Woman |
Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern Silver Ring Setting) Draped bust of a female to right. The features and particularly the headdress are copied from coin portraits of Atacilia, Severa or Etruscilla in the IIIrd century A.D. Late 17th or earlier 18th |
Height | 1.6 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 2407 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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