Gem
Ring
29-128-2079
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2079 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Aphrodite | Eros |
| Description | Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Aphrodite standing to left, half-draped with left hand on hip and extending her right hand to Eros who reaches up to grasp it. Graeco-Roman, in a plastic Alexandrine style, quite like some of the Gegraw plaques. |
| Height | 1 cm |
| Width | 1.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2079 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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