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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

Associated place

Rome (city)
Rome (province)
Lazio
Italy
Europe

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.