Gem
Ring
29-128-901
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-901 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Creator | Dioscurides |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 50 BCE-400 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Gold | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Bull | Signature |
| Description | Sommerville: Sard. Intaglio ring. A bull. A magnificient incision by the renowned Dioscorides, a Greek gem-engraver of the time of Emperor Augustus, whose portrait he engraved; which gem was used by Augustus and several of his successors as their signet. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case EEE. Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting, broken and mended) Bull butting to left., crescent above. Signed in exerque in Greek letters. Sommerville identifies this as a gem by the renowned Dioscurides. Greek gem engraver of the time of Augustus whose portrait he engraved. |
| Height | 1.4 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 901 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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