Gem
Ring
29-128-2133
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-2133 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman | Gnostic |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Late Antique Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Black Jasper (uncertain) | Hematite (uncertain) | Silver |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Zeus | Harpocrates | Inscription | Serapis |
Description | Vermeule: Black Jasper (Hematite?). Intaglio. (Modern silvered ring setting) Bust of Zeus to left flanked by star and crescent, Harpocrates beneath flying to left emptying rhyton. Reverse: (in mixed Graeco-Latin letters). |
Height | 1.9 cm |
Width | 1.7 cm |
Thickness | 0.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 2133 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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