CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN GOLD AND NICOLO FINGER RING
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The solid plain hoop flat on the interior, rounded on the exterior, expanding to the wide shoulders, the plain bezel set with a bevelled oval stone engraved with Theseus, depicted nude, standing with one leg bent, holding the sword of his father Aegeus in front of him, a branch below, an inscription in Greek in the field behind
1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) wide; ring size 6½

Provenance

Acquired by the current owner in the late 1980s.

Lot Essay

For the iconography see no. 336 in Henig, Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, and nos. 712-713 in Maaskant-Kleibring, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems in the Royal Coin Cabinet, The Hague.

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