Gem
Ring
29-128-2121
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2121 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Amethyst | Gold |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Dionysis? | Heracles? |
| Description | Vermeule: Amethyst. Intaglio. (Modern gilt ring setting and impression). Bust of a young man to right, wreath in hair and drapery about shoulders. Perhaps Dionysos or Herakles. Graeco-Roman. |
| Height | 1.1 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2121 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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