Gem
Ring
29-128-2034
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2034 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Eastern Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Amethyst | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | King? | Priest? | Scepter | Tree |
| Description | Vermeule: Amethyst. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) A figure resembling a Mesopotamian king or priest stands to right, holding a sceptre in his lowered right hand and grasping a flowering tree with the left. Graeco-Roman, undoubtedly Eastern Mediterranean work suggested by Achaenenian and older models. |
| Height | 0.9 cm |
| Width | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2034 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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