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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: | 0.9cm |
| Width: | 1.1cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1889 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
(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. 78. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 45, no. 182; taf. 35 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference |
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