Gem
Finger Ring
29-128-1177
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1177 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 3rd century |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze | Glass |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Cupid | Horse |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. Cupid riding a human-faced horse. An antique bronze ring. Antique Pastes, Case UUU. Vermeule: Bronze rings with intaglio gems and pastes in original settings. Subjects are extremely difficult to make out, but the group is typical of rings and ringstones worn by the average Roman of the Imperial Period. A great number of such rings have been found in excavations throughout Western Roman Empire. Roman Imperial. *Vermeule categorizes this piece with 29-128-1265 and 29-128-1287 |
| Height | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1177 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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