Gem
Ring
29-128-1915
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1915 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Carnelian | Metal |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Apollo | Column | Lyre |
| Description | Vermeule: Carnelian. Intaglio. Apollo leaning to right, on a large lyre placed on a column. His right hand is placed on top of his head. Composition reproduces a celebrated Temple statue in Rome. Statue itself was probably carved c. 100 B.C. Graeco-Roman. |
| Height | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1915 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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