Gem

29-128-865

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-865
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sard
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Dog | Tree | Landscape
Description

Sommerville: Pale Sard. An Etruscan Intaglio. Dog, etc. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case BBB.

Vermeule. Sard. Intaglio. (Unmounted) A dog to right., in a landscape, a rustic shrine appears at the right on top of a rocky hillside; a tree curves across the scene from right to left. Graeco-Roman.

Height 1.1 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 865 - Sommerville Gem Number

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