Gem

Finger Ring

29-128-1287

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 29-128-1287
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze | Paste
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Faith
Description

Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. Faith. Bronze ring of the first century. Very fine and minute. Antique Pastes, Case ZZZ.

Vermeule: Bronze rings with intaglio gems and pastes in original settings. Subjects are extremely difficult to make out, but the group is typical of rings and ringstones worn by the average Roman of the Imperial Period. A great number of such rings have been found in excavations throughout Western Roman Empire. Graeco-Roman.

Height 0.7 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1287 - Sommerville Number

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