| Object Number |
29-128-928 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Roman |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Period |
Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made |
100-199 CE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Sard | Gold |
| Technique |
Intaglio |
| Iconography |
Cybele | Cart | Elephants | Cart | Elephants | Annona? | Goddess | Grain |
| Description |
Sommerville: Pale Sard. Cybele, deity of the Earth, on a decorated car drawn by two elephants, with riders, etc. Superbly fine intaglio. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case GGG. Vermeule: Pale Sard. Intaglio.(Modern gold ring setting) A procession to left, an elephant biga with mahouts pulling a decorated cart on which appears a cult statue of a Roman goddess, perhaps Annona holding corn ears. Roman Imperial of second century A.D. finely carved. cf the Roman sard with nearly identical treatment of the subject, British Museum. |
| Height |
1.5 cm |
| Width |
1.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
2 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
0928 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: p. 87 |
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| Richter, Gisela M. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Greek, Etruscan and Roman.. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1956. See: nos. 348-349 |
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| Vermeule, Cornelius C. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The University Museum, 1956. See: no. 256 |
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| Lippold, Georg. Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1922. See: pl. 73, no. 9 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 728, no. 928, pl. 76 |
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| Murray, Alexander S., and Arthur H. Smith. A Catalogue of Engraved Gems in the British museum (Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.). London: British Museum Press, 1888. See: no. 1617 |
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