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
pen
ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 260mm
Width: 232mm
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.