Gem
Ring
| Object Number: | 29-128-1869 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Roman |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Period: | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Carnelian Gold |
| Technique: | Intaglio |
| Iconography: | Nemesis Branch Chiton |
| Height: | 1 cm |
| Width: | 1.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 1869 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Scarab: Carnelian, Intaglio. (Modern silver swivel ring setting) Nemerus standing to left, holding a branch in her lowered left hand, and her chiton into which she spits, with her right. Graeco-Roman, the design occuring probably on late Hellenistic gems, was most popular on sold and silver coins of the Emperor Claudius (A.D. 41-54) and on bronze coins of Hadrian (117-138 A.D.)
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