Gem

Ring

29-128-2574

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-2574
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1750-1899
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sardonyx | Gold
Technique Cameo
Iconography Ptolemy?
Description

Vermeule: Reddish Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Draped bust of a young man to right. The features copied from a Hellenistic portrait coin, such as one of those of the later Ptolemies. 18th or 19th century.

Height 2.71 cm
Width 2.06 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2574 - Sommerville Gem Number

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