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Gem

Ring

Object Number:29-128-1949
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Roman
Provenience: Mediterranean
Period: Imperial Roman Period
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Sard
Gold
Technique:Intaglio
Iconography:Fides
Demeter
Fruit
Tray
Height: 0.9 cm
Width: 1.2 cm
Credit Line:Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number:1949 - Sommerville Gem Number

Description

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Fides-Demeter standing to the right, ears of corn in her lowered left hand, a tray of fruit held in her right. Roman Imperial.

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