Gem
Ring (uncertain)
29-128-2312
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2312 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Carnelian | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Heracles | Club | Hydra? |
| Description | Vermeule: Dark Carnelian. Intaglio. (Modern Gold setting with bar attached. Broken ring?) Herakles with club or bow about to smite a snake coiled about a tree. Snake perhaps represents Hydra. Gold pin setting. |
| Height | 2.6 cm |
| Width | 1.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2312 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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