Gem
Ring
29-128-1929
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1929 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Emerald | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Bird | Olive Branch |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma of Emerald. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) A bird, perhaps a raven standing to right, upon an olive branch. The letter SC ? backwards appears beneath. Graeco-Roman, the letters perhaps those common to the reverses of Roman Imperial Aes coinage. |
| Height | 1.3 cm |
| Width | 0.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1929 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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