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A ROMAN IRON AND CARNELIAN INTAGLIO RING
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A ROMAN IRON AND CARNELIAN INTAGLIO RING

CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

Closed25 October 2012

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A ROMAN IRON AND CARNELIAN INTAGLIO RING
CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
The ring with sloping shoulders, the bezel set with an oval finely carved intaglio, showing a draped female bust in profile to the left, wearing elaborately dressed hair
Intaglio: ¾ in. (1.8 cm.) long; ring size R

W. Froelich collection, New York, 1971.

Specialist note

For similar intaglio cf., G. Lippold, Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, Stuttgart, 1922, p. 74, pl. LXXIV, no. 6. The elaborate hair found on this intaglio is similar to that seen on coins depicting empresses from approximately the mid-3rd to early-4th Century A.D., including Salonina wife of Gallienus.