Ganymede Intaglio

Jewelry

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Trimontium Museum

Image © National Museums Scotland

Image © National Museums Scotland

Name/Title

Ganymede Intaglio

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 747

Description

Intaglio showing Ganymede feeding the Eagle, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Style

Roman

Use

Intaglios were both fashionable and practical, and would be used as a signature of the wearer.

Context

Found during the excavations of James Curle

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Category

Intaglio
Jewellery

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 747

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Intaglio

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

intaglios (sculptural objects)

Material

Jasper

Color

Red

Web Links and URLs

Engraved gemstones from the Roman frontier post at Newstead, Roxburghshire, J Walter Elliot (Author) Martin Henig (Author)