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Ring
| Object Number: | 29-128-2455 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Period: | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Glass Paste Gold |
| Technique: | Intaglio |
| Iconography: | Kore? Queen? |
| Height: | 1 cm |
| Width: | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 2455 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating blue Onyx. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Laureate, draped, veiled head to right, of a Greek divinity such as Kore, or more likely, a Hellenistic Queen is represented. Graeco-Roman, copy of a Greek work of the IIIrd B.C. or later.
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