A GRAECO-ROMAN GOLD AND CARNELIAN CAMEO RING
Lot 129

A GRAECO-ROMAN GOLD AND CARNELIAN CAMEO RING

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

Closed25 October 2012

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GBP 22,500

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A GRAECO-ROMAN GOLD AND CARNELIAN CAMEO RING
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The wide hollow gold hoop, flat on interior, rounded on exterior, widening to a large oval bezel decorated with a band of repoussé ovolo, set with a roughly oval shaped carnelian cameo bust of Zeus, with head slightly turned to his right, with finely detailed luxuriously curling hair and beard, long curving moustache, wearing an oak wreath, eyes articulated, drapery over his left shoulder
Cameo: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm.) long; ring size I

Private collection, Switzerland, late 1970s.

Specialist note

For similar, cf. W.-R. Megow, Kameen von Augustus bis Alexander Severus, Berlin, 1987, p. 208, no. A88, pl. 34.