Gem
Ring
29-128-1954
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1954 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Emerald | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Aphrodite | Venus Genetrix | Scepter | Apple |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma of Emerald. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Aphrodite (Venus Genetrix) standing to left, a sceptre-staff held vertically in her raised left hand, an apple on the extended right. Roman Imperial. |
| Height | 0.7 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1954 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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