Gem

Ring Fragment

29-128-1969

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1969
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sard | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Silenus | Satyr | Pan | Rustic Landscape | Altar | Column
Description

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) Broken on several sides. A Bacchic scene, Silenus seated to right, watching two satyrs or Pan and a satyr who frolic in a rustic landscape. Altar at the right, a column with vine shoots and a jar on top in the background. Graeco-Roman.

Height 1.6 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1969 - Sommerville Gem Number

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