Gem

Ring

Object Number:

29-128-925

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Roman

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Period:

Imperial Roman Period

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Gold
Sardonyx

Technique:

Intaglio

Iconography:

Emperor
Trajan?

Description:

(Modern gilt ring setting) Laureate bust perhaps representing the Emperor Trajan (98-117 A.D.) to right.

Height:

1.5cm

Width:

1.3cm

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Other Number:

925	-	Sommerville Gem Number
288	-	Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems)

[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1950. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

[Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1877. Engraved Gems : Their Place in the History of Art.