Gem
Ring
29-128-1939
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1939 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 200-499 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Jasper | Metal |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Abundantia | Libation Bowl |
| Description | Vermeule: Red Jasper. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) A personification, perhaps Abundantia standing to right, a cornucopia in her left arm, a libation bowl in her extended right. The work is extremely cursory and in the style of the III or IV centuries A.D. Roman Imperial. |
| Height | 0.8 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1939 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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