Gem
Ring
29-128-2133
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2133 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman | Gnostic |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Late Antique Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Black Jasper (uncertain) | Hematite (uncertain) | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Zeus | Harpocrates | Inscription | Serapis |
| Description | Vermeule: Black Jasper (Hematite?). Intaglio. (Modern silvered ring setting) Bust of Zeus to left flanked by star and crescent, Harpocrates beneath flying to left emptying rhyton. Reverse: (in mixed Graeco-Latin letters). |
| Height | 1.9 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Thickness | 0.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2133 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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