Gem

Ring

29-128-1939

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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