Gem
Ring
29-128-1098
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1098 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1800-1880 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Male Head |
| Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony. A curious rude head. Gold and Bronze Rings - Cameos, Case QQQ. Vermeule: Chalcedony. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Bust of a man with features of the Decebalus type facing slightly to left. 19th century, copied from one of the busts of Dacians in the various Roman collections. |
| Height | 1.4 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1098 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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