Gem

Ring

29-128-2407

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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