Gem

Ring

29-128-931

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-931
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold | Sardonyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Tuke | Bonus Eventus
Description

Sommerville: Sard. Tuke, the Bonus Eventus, holding in the right hand two ears of wheat, and in the left the patera. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case GGG.

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Bonus Eventus standing facing. Graeco-Roman

Height 1.2 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 931 - Sommerville Gem Number

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