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Engraved jasper gem with a hound and dolphin

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An image of Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Hound and dolphin. Intaglio cutting, jasper, 101-200 AD. Roman.

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Engraved gems. Magical amulet. Hound and dolphin. Intaglio cutting, jasper, 101-200 AD. Roman.

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  • Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.685
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/41.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 59.70kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 41/1
  • Captured: 2014:05:07 15:00:54

Key words

_WF_Lewis_Collection _WF_Loan_Corpus amulet animals antiquity dogs dolphin engraved gem finger ring Fitz_ANT gemstones hounds incised inscribed inscriptions intaglio intaglio cutting jasper jewellery jewelry language magical amulet red ring ringstone script texts writing

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rgb(242,234,219), rgb(132,74,49), rgb(214,188,146), rgb(177,150,129), rgb(169,137,92), rgb(152,105,89), rgb(213,143,95), rgb(175,106,84), rgb(78,63,40), rgb(198,172,172), rgb(172,172,156)

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