Gem
Scarab
Ring
29-128-1848
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1848 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic | Hellenistic |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Hellenistic Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Plasma | Metal |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Menelaus | Patrocles |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma, scarab. Intaglio. (Modern gilt ring setting) Menalaus carrying body of Patrokles whose weapons lie on ground at right in front of them. Italic or perhaps Hellenistic Greek. |
| Height | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1848 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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