Gem
Ring
29-128-1889
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1889 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sard | Metal |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Athena | Spear | Shield |
| Description | Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern Silver Ring Setting) Athena standing to left, holding her spear vertically in her raised right hand, her shield beside her in the left. Graeco-Roman, perhaps based on the cult statue of Minerva in the Roman temple of Jupiter - Capitolinus. |
| Height | 0.9 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1889 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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