intaglio

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Object Type
Museum number: 1856,0425.12
Description: Intaglio; sard; two fish above hemispherical basket with handles; in gold ring.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-4thC
Materials: sard; gold
Technique: engraved; intaglio
Dimensions: Height: 8 millimetres (gem); Thickness: 4 millimetres (gem); Width: 12 millimetres (gem)
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Perret, Les Catacombes de Rome, vol. iv, pl. xvi, fig. 24. Cf. Garrucci, Storia dell' arte cristiana, vol. vi, pl. 478, fig.2. On the fish represented on the basket, see de Rossi, in Pitra, Spicilegium Solesmense, vol. iii, pp. 564, 565. Published: DACL, Paris, 1924, col 826, no 95, fig 4983.
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (36); Dalton 1915 / Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography in the British Museum. (536); Finney 2003 / Abbé James Hamilton: Antiquary, Patron of the Arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (10); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.20)
Location: Not on display
Condition: ring missing (November 2015)
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0425.12

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