Gem
Ring
29-128-1939
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1939 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Imperial Roman Period |
Date Made | 200-499 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Jasper | Metal |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Abundantia | Libation Bowl |
Description | Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) A personification, perhaps Abundantia standing to right, a cornucopia in her left arm, a libation bowl in her extended right. The work is extremely cursory and in the style of the III or IV centuries A.D. Roman Imperial. |
Height | 0.8 cm |
Width | 1.1 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1939 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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