Gem
Ring
29-128-1860
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1860 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Alexander the Great | Lion Skin |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing the lion's skin of Herakles. The type is copied from silver drachma pieces struck under Alexander and his successors. Neo-Classical. |
| Height | 1.5 cm |
| Width | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1860 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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