CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

SEVEN ROMAN RING STONES
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
14 mm. wide max.

Provenance

G. Sangiorgi collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

For a similar Roman Republican pellet-style ring stone showing a dog, cf, M. Henig, Classical Gems, Cambridge, 1994, p. 85, no. 150. For a similar ring stone with Venus Victrix and Eros see Getty Museum inv. no: 82.AN.162.34 (J. Spier, Ancient Gems and Finger Rings: Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1992, p. 101, no. 244). the device is said to have been on Ceasar's seal. For nude Zeus about to throw a thunderbolt see. M. Maaskant-Kleibrink, Catalogue of the engraved Gems in the Royal Coin Cabinet, the Hague, 1978, p. 135, no. 193.

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