Gem
Ring
29-128-2013
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2013 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 200-299 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sard | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Cart | Elephants | Mahout | Cage | Baby Elephant |
| Description | Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern silvered ring setting) A cart going to right, pulled by two elephants and driven by a mahout. On the cart is a cage in which there appears a baby elephant. The cutting of the stone indicates that this is Roman work of the III A.D. A similar scene appears on one of the recently discovered early IVth Cent. A.D. mosaics in the Villa at Piazza Armerina, Sicily. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2013 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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