| Object Number |
29-128-552 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Italic |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Date Made |
199-0 BCE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Banded Agate |
| Technique |
Intaglio |
| Iconography |
Minerva | Aphrodite? | Maenad? |
| Description |
Sommerville: Onyx. An intaglio ring, Minerva. Archaic. Has probably been cut down from a scarabeus, B.C. 300 years. Phoenician Amulets, Seals, Scarabei, Etc, Case GG. Vermeule: Intaglio. Banded Agate. Modern gold ring setting. Female figure, perhaps Aphrodite or a Maenad, dancing to left. 1st or 2nd century B.C. Italic |
| Length |
1.4 cm |
| Width |
0.9 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
552 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. See: p. 124, fig. 112 |
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| Berges, Dietrich K. Antike Siegel und Glasgemmen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville: im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2002. Page/Fig./Plate: 78 See: p. 31, no. 72; taf. II; taf. 17 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 703, no. 552, pl. 46 |
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