Gem
Finger Ring
29-128-1265
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1265 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Imperial Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 0-100 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze | Glass |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Orestes | Electra |
| Description | Sommerville: Antique paste, bronze ring, of first century, intaglio. Orestes and Electra, his sister. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ. Vermeule: Bronze rings with intaglio gems and pastes in original settings. Subjects are extremely difficult to make out, but the group is typical of rings and ringstones worn by the average Roman of the Imperial Period. A great number of such rings have been found in excavations throughout Western Roman Empire. Graeco-Roman. |
| Height | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1265 - Sommerville Number |
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