Object Number | 29-128-968 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Western Europe |
Period | Early Middle Ages |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold | Onyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Horatius | Bridge |
Description | Sommerville: Onyx. Horatius defending the bridge. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case III. Vermeule: Onyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Scene identified as Horatius defending the bridge. Workmanship appears to be of late Antiquity or some classical revival in the earlier Middle Ages. |
Height | 1.6 cm |
Width | 1.4 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 968 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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