A GREEK GOLD AND GARNET FINGER RING
A GREEK GOLD AND GARNET FINGER RING

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK GOLD AND GARNET FINGER RING
ptolemaic period, circa early 3rd century b.c.
The hoop semi-circular in section expanding to the high shoulders, the bezel set with an oval garnet with a slightly convex face, engraved with a bust of a woman in profile to the right, wearing a coiled snake armlet and two bangles, pulling the edge of a diaphanous himation in her delicate fingers, a veil worn over the back of her head, with short wavy locks along the front of her head and long tendrils falling along her neck and shoulder
size 8.75