Gem
Ring
Object Number:
29-128-2051
Current Location:
Rome Gallery
Culture:
Graeco-Roman
Provenience:
Mediterranean
Period:
Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made:
1st century -2nd century AD
Early Date:
0
Late Date:
199
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Onyx
Bronze
Technique:
Intaglio
Iconography:
Eagle
Star
Inscription
Description:
(Ancient gilt brass ring setting) Gray Jasper. Head of eagle to right, star above. Inscribed around field I.C.A.P.M.
Height:
0.8cm
Width:
0.8cm
Credit Line:
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville
Other Number:
| 2051 | - | Sommerville Gem Number |
| 240 | - | Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems) |
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Roman World (15 Mar 2003)
Bibliography:
[Book] Berges, Dietrich. 2002. Antike Siegel und Glasgemmen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville: im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 78. : Page/Fig./Plate: 37
[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1950. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
You may also be interested in these objects:
My Finds
