finger-ring; intaglio

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Object Type: finger-ring; intaglio
Museum number: 1856,0425.7
Description: Part of a finger-ring; carnelian; cut from the solid with flat oval bezel engraved intaglio with a dove holding olive-branch in its beak; repaired with gold.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-4thC
Materials: cornelian; gold
Technique: intaglio; engraved
Dimensions: Length: 8 millimetres (gem); Width: 4 millimetres (gemel)
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: See Fortnum in Arch. Journ., xxvi (1869), p. 140, note 1. It may be mentioned here that the Fortnum collection of rings is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The greater part of the hoop wanting. Published: DACL, Paris, 1924, col 853, no 256.; Text from Dalton 1912, Catalogue of Finger Rings:, no. 20 See also Fortnum in 'Archaeological Journal', xxvi (1869), p. 140, note 1. The greater part of the hoop is wanting.
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 (30); Dalton 1912 / Franks Bequest Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, KCB, in which are included the other rings of the same period in the Museum. (20); 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. (530A); Spier 2007 / Late Antique and Early Christian Gems (X48); Finney 2003 / Abbé James Hamilton: Antiquary, Patron of the Arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (17); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.20)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fragment.
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0425.7

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