Gem

Scarab

29-128-559

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Sardinia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-559
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Culture Phoenician
Provenience Sardinia
Date Made 800–600 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Basalt
Iconography Griffin | Temple | Cult Image
Description

Sommerville: Basalt. Phoenician Scarabeus. Ring found in Sardinia, of the time of the Phoenician occupation of that island. Phoenician Amulets, Seals, Scarabei, Etc, Case GG.

Vermeule: Basalt scarab. (Modern gold ring setting). Published by Sommerville as "Phoenician scarab." Ring found in Sardinia of the time of the Phoenician occupation of that island. Exhibited in the Acad. des Inscriptions, Paris in 1882.

Height 2.7 cm
Width 2.8 cm
Depth 1.2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 559 - Sommerville Gem Number

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