Gem

Scarab

Swivel Ring

29-128-942

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-942
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Italic | Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Hellenistic Period | Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Pan | Pedum | Pipes
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. A Scarabeus. A dancing satyr with baton and Pandean pipes. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case HHH.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Intaglio. Scarab. (Modern gold swivel setting) and impression. Pan with a pedum and his pipes dancing to right., in oval cable type border. Graeco-Italic work of Hellenistic period. Graeco-Roman.

Height 2.2 cm
Width 1.6 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 942 - Sommerville Gem Number

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