Gem
Ring
29-128-2294
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2294 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Graeco-Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Chalcedony | Silver |
| Iconography | Ares? | Trojan Hero? | Diomedes? |
| Description | Vermeule: Chalcedony. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) Youthful figure, perhaps intended for Ares or a Trojan hero, such as Diomedes seated to right, on a garlanded altar. A sheated sword against his left arm and a dagger surmounted by a small figure reaching up to a star in his extended right hand; a crescent in field behind him. Graeco-Roman, perhaps with so-called "Gnostic" significance. |
| Height | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2294 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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