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Title:Carnelian ring stone
Period:Imperial
Date:1st century BCE–3rd century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Carnelian
Dimensions:Length: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
Classification:Gems
Credit Line:Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881
Object Number:81.6.53
Between 1845 and 1872, acquired by Reverend Charles William King; until 1878, collection of Rev. C. W. King, Cambridge, England; 1878, purchased by John Taylor Johnston from Rev. C. W. King; 1878-1881, collection of John Taylor Johnston, New York; acquired in 1881, gift of John Taylor Johnston.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1881. Twelfth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Association for eight months ending December 31, 1881. pp. 216–17, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
King, Charles William Reverend. 1885. Handbook of Engraved Gems. no. 1, p. 225, pl. 41, London: G. Bell & Sons.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1894. Handbook No. 9: Collections of Engraved Gems. no. 65, p. 42, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Osborne, Duffield. 1912[Henry Holt]. Engraved Gems, Signets, Talismans and Ornamental Intaglios, Ancient and Modern. no. 19, p. 359, pl. 21, New York: H. Holt.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1920. Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style. no. 124, p. 93, pl. 34, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1956. Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. no. 248, p. 63, pl. 37, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1992. Vol. 6: Kentauroi-Oiax. "Kronos," p. p. 144, no. 9, pl. 65, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 2006[1956]. Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, 2nd edn. no. 248, p. 63, pl. 37, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
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