Gem

Ring

29-128-944

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-944
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Date Made 50 BCE-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold | Onyx
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Heracles?
Description

Sommerville: Onyx. Young Hercules. Gold Rings - Intaglios, Case HHH.

Vermeule: Onyx. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) and impression. Head of a youthful divinity, perhaps Herakles to right.

Height 1 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 944 - Sommerville Gem Number

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