| Object Number | 29-128-913 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Gold | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Ptolemy Philadelphus | Arsinoe | Bearded Man | Woman |
| Description | Sommerville: Sard. Ptolemaeus Philadelphus and Arsinoe, his wife. She was also his sister, B.C. 279. A Greek intaglio. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case FFF. Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Jugate heads of a bearded man and a woman wearing a diadem facing to right. The heads copy Greek types of the Hellenistic period. Sommerville termed them Ptolomy Philadelphus and Arsione, but they do not resemble the coin portraits. Neo-Classic |
| Height | 1.7 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 913 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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