Gem
Ring
29-128-1111
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1111 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1500-1699 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Onyx | Chalcedony (uncertain) |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Victory | Chiton | Himation | Column | Shield |
| Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. A figure of Victory as History. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case RRR. Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Victory wearing a slit chiton with himation about her waist stands to right, in the act of writing on a shield set upon a column. 16th or 17th century adaptation of the figure dividing the two Dacian wars on the column of Trajan in Rome. |
| Height | 1.9 cm |
| Width | 2.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1111 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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