Object Number | 29-128-918 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
Date Made | 150-300 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold | Sardonyx |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Jupiter Tonans | Victory | Jupiter | Zeus | Victory | Eagle |
Description | Sommerville: Sardonyx. Jupiter Tonans, with an effigy of Victory in his extended hand. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case FFF. Vermeule: Sardonyx. Intaglio. (Modern gilt ring setting) Jupiter seated right, figure of Victory on extended right hand, spear held vertically in left hand; eagle at feet front. Cursory Roman work of II or III A.D. carved directly so figure appears reversed instead of correctly in plaster impression. Graeco-Roman. |
Height | 1.4 cm |
Width | 0.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 918 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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