Gem
Scarab
29-128-1776
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1776 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Etruria |
| Date Made | 420-380 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Carnelian | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Heracles | Club | Spear |
| Description | Vermeule: Intaglio. Scaraboid. (Modern swiveled gilt ring setting) Warrior or Herakles standing to right, holding long bow in left hand, club in right. Wheel has been used extensively obscuring outline and anatomical details. Etruscan. |
| Length | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Thickness | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1776 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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