Gem
Ring
29-128-2049
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2049 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Emerald | Silver |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Dionysos | Thyrsus | Kantharos | Panther |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma of Emerald. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) Dionysos standing to left, his thrysus held vertically in his left hand, a karanthos in his lowered right. A panther appears at his feet at the left. Graeco-Roman, well cut in the Hellenistic tradition. |
| Height | 0.7 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2049 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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