Gem
Ring
29-128-1842
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1842 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sard | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Muse | Terpsichore | Tuscan Column | Lyre |
| Description | Vermeule: Yellow Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) A muse, perhaps Terpsichore standing to left, at a Tuscan column; she is playing a large lyre. Neo-Classic, the design is copied from silver denarii of the Roman Republican monege. Musa. |
| Height | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1842 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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