Gem
Ring
29-128-1980
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1980 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Jasper | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Youth | Cloak | Offering |
| Description | Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) A youthful male figure clad in a long cloak stands to the right, holding an offering in his raised left hand and an uncertain object (perhaps grapes and a vine) in his lowered right. A tree appears at the left, the figure is the type used for Bonus Eventus. Graeco-Roman. |
| Height | 1.1 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1980 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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