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Intaglio: Victory in a Chariot
1–200 CE
- Medium
- red jasper in gold mount
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 1.6 x 1.9 x 0.5 cm (5/8 x 3/4 x 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Roman
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Luc Chalmin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This oval jasper gemstone is incised with a scene of the goddess Victory in a chariot being pulled by four galloping horses. The horses’ hind hooves all touch a curved ground line at the bottom of the composition. The stone is set in a gold mount with toothed edges holding it in place, attached by a loop to two additional gold rings.
