intaglio

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Object Type
Museum number: 1856,0425.14
Description: Intaglio; sard; oval pyramidal; bird perched upon a tree; in gold ring.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-4thC
Materials: sard; gold
Technique: engraved; intaglio
Dimensions: Height: 9 millimetres (gem); Thickness: 6 millimetres (gem); Width: 11 millimetres (gem)
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Perret, Les Catacombes de Rome, vol. iv, pl. xvi, fig. 9.
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 (32); 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. (532); Spier 2007 / Late Antique and Early Christian Gems (X49); Finney 2003 / Abbé James Hamilton: Antiquary, Patron of the Arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (18); 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)
Subjects: bird; tree/bush
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0425.14

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