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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
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A ROMAN GOLD AND RED JASPER FINGER RING
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
The flat hoop expanding to the wide shoulders, with incised and stippled scrolling, the bezel rimmed with beaded wire, the round convex jasper engraved with a gryllos formed of three heads with a balding satyr, a bearded Dionysus and a bearded Pan, a branch rising from his horn, inscribed at left: KXIVE
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) wide; ring size 3½
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
The flat hoop expanding to the wide shoulders, with incised and stippled scrolling, the bezel rimmed with beaded wire, the round convex jasper engraved with a gryllos formed of three heads with a balding satyr, a bearded Dionysus and a bearded Pan, a branch rising from his horn, inscribed at left: KXIVE
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) wide; ring size 3½
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 December 1999, lot 66.
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