Gem
Scarab
29-128-559
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Sardinia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-559 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Phoenician |
| Provenience | Sardinia |
| Date Made | 800–600 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Basalt |
| Iconography | Griffin | Temple | Cult Image |
| Description | Sommerville: Basalt. Phoenician Scarabeus. Ring found in Sardinia, of the time of the Phoenician occupation of that island. Phoenician Amulets, Seals, Scarabei, Etc, Case GG. Vermeule: Basalt scarab. (Modern gold ring setting). Published by Sommerville as "Phoenician scarab." Ring found in Sardinia of the time of the Phoenician occupation of that island. Exhibited in the Acad. des Inscriptions, Paris in 1882. |
| Height | 2.7 cm |
| Width | 2.8 cm |
| Depth | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 559 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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