Gem
Scarab
Swivel Ring
29-128-942
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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