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Gem
Swivel Ring
| Object Number: | 29-128-1786 |
| Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location: | Etruria |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Carnelian Gold |
| Technique: | Intaglio |
| Iconography: | Heracles Raft Amphora |
| Height: | 1.6 cm |
| Width: | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 1786 - Sommerville Gem Number 65 - Vermeule Number (Sommerville Gems) |
Description
Vermeule: Scarab. Intaglio. Carnelian. (Modern swiveled gilt ring setting) Herakles reclining to right, on a raft which is buoyed by five inflated skin amphorae. Line border. cf. 29-128-1756 > similar scene. Etruscan.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Cameo and Intaglio: Engraved Gems from the Sommerville Collection (30 Nov 1956 - 31 Mar 1957) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p.238, no.257 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Berges, Dietrich. 2002. Antike Siegel und Glasgemmen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville: im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Mainz am Rhein. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. pg. 78 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 24, no. 18; taf. 6 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1956. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 65 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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