Object Number | 29-128-966 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Renaissance |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold | Onyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Ptolemy | Alexander the Great |
Description | Sommerville: Onyx. Ptolemy. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case III. Vermeule: Onyx. Cameo. (Modern gilt ring setting) Laureate draped bust to right; termed Ptolemy, son of Marc Antony by Cleopatra in Sommerville catalogue, but certainly modeled after representations of Alexander the Great. |
Height | 2.9 cm |
Width | 2.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 966 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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