
Gem
Ring
Object Number: | 29-128-1889 |
Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience: | Mediterranean |
Period: | Graeco-Roman Period |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Sard Metal |
Technique: | Intaglio |
Iconography: | Athena Spear Shield |
Height: | 0.9 cm |
Width: | 1.1 cm |
Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number: | 1889 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern Silver Ring Setting) Athena standing to left, holding her spear vertically in her raised right hand, her shield beside her in the left. Graeco-Roman, perhaps based on the cult statue of Minerva in the Roman temple of Jupiter - Capitolinus.
Bibliography:
[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. 45, no. 182; taf. 35 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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