Gem
Finger Ring
29-128-1225
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1225 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze | Paste |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Cupid | Eros | Weapons |
| Description | Sommerville: Fragment of an antique bronze ring, with an antique paste cameo. Cupid. Antique Pastes, Case XXX. Vermeule: Glass paste. Cameo. (Ancient ring setting, bronze) Winged Eros walking to right carrying arms of Mars (Ares). The design was a popular one in antiquity occuring chiefly on marble caldlelabrum bases. A well known set is in Venice, Graeco-Roman, good style. |
| Length | 1 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1225 - Sommerville Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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