Gem
Ring
Object Number:
29-128-928
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Roman
Provenience:
Mediterranean
Period:
Imperial Roman Period
Date Made:
100-199 AD
Early Date:
100
Late Date:
199
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Sard
Technique:
Intaglio
Iconography:
Cybele
Cart
Elephants
Cart
Elephants
Annona?
Goddess
Grain
Description:
Pale Sard. (Modern gold ring setting) A procession to left, an elephant biga with mahouts pulling a decorated cart on which appears a cult statue of a Roman goddess, perhaps Annona holding corn ears. Roman Imperial of II A.D. finely carved. cf the Roman sard with nearly identical treatment of the subject, British Museum.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville
Other Number:
| 0928 | - | Sommerville Gem Number |
| 256 | - | Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems) |
Bibliography:
[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.
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