Object Number | 29-128-928 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Imperial Roman Period |
Date Made | 100-199 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sard | Gold |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Cybele | Cart | Elephants | Cart | Elephants | Annona? | Goddess | Grain |
Description | Sommerville: Pale Sard. Cybele, deity of the Earth, on a decorated car drawn by two elephants, with riders, etc. Superbly fine intaglio. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case GGG. Vermeule: Pale Sard. Intaglio.(Modern gold ring setting) A procession to left, an elephant biga with mahouts pulling a decorated cart on which appears a cult statue of a Roman goddess, perhaps Annona holding corn ears. Roman Imperial of second century A.D. finely carved. cf the Roman sard with nearly identical treatment of the subject, British Museum. |
Height | 1.5 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Outside Diameter | 2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 0928 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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