Gem

Ring

29-128-1991

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1991
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Graeco-Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Sard | Silver
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Dionysos | Wine Cup | Thyrsus
Description

Vermeule: Sard. Intaglio. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Dionysus walking unsteadily to left. He holds a wine cup in his raised left hand and his pine-coned topped staff (thyrsus) in the other. Graeco-Roman.

Height 0.9 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Depth 0.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1991 - Sommerville Gem Number

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