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Drawings Roman intaglio finger ring, with symbols

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.139

Artist/Designer/Maker

Clarke, Angelica - Artist

Production date

1821

Material

paper
pen
ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 260mm
Width: 232mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Angelica Clarke. delt.

Inscription content

Archæologia XIX. p. 404.

References

Reference (free text)

Edward Daniel Clarke, 'On the Lituus of the Antient [sic] Romans; Shewing that this Name Had a Two-Fold Signification; Being Used to Denote a Sign of the Highest Priesthood, and Also an Augural Staff; But that the Whole Series of Numismatic Writers Have Considered it as Applicable Soley to the Latter: Together with Some Other Observations, in Illustration of a Jasper Intaglia Signet, Bearing the Sacrificial Symbols of the Roman Pontifex Maximus; and Recently Discovered under Remarkable Circumstances in Cambridge', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 386-404 Illustration (Engraving), pl. XL, between pp. 404 and 405.