Currently not on view
Engraved gem: two comic actors,
1st century BCE
Roman
y1969-56
Information
Title
Engraved gem: two comic actors
Dates
1st century BCE
Medium
Banded agate in modern gold mount
Dimensions
1.3 x 0.8 x 1.9 cm (1/2 x 5/16 x 3/4 in.)
ring: d. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of LeRoy Strasburger
Object Number
y1969-56
Culture
Techniques
Given to the Museum by LeRoy Strasburger in 1969
- "Acquisitions 1969", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27., p. 23
- Barbara Ann Forbes, Catalogue of engraved gems in The Art Museum. Dissertation (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, 1978)., p. 153; pl. 34:143
- Barbara A. Forbes, "The Princeton Art Museum's collection of classical and classicizing engraved gemstones," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 54, no. 1 (1995): p. 23-29., p. 23, figs. 1–2
