Gem

Ring

29-128-1788

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1788
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Mountain Goat
Description

Vermeule: Banded Agate. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Mountain goat seated to left. Graeco-Italian work close in style to that of Etruscan gems and worked with a gem cutter's wheel.

Height 1 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1788 - Sommerville Gem Number

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