A BYZANTINE GOLD FINGER RING

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A BYZANTINE GOLD FINGER RING
CIRCA 6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
The hoop is of sheet with ornamental bands of wire soldered on the exterior, beaded wires on the edges with intertwined twisted wires on either side of a central plain wire, the bezel in the form of sheet "petals" which emerge from a base ring and support a circular box set with green glass, a large granule along the join of each petal to the rim.

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Cf. no. 28 in Bathke, Ringe Aus Vier Jahrtausenden im Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Frankfurt, 1963; and no. 6-e and 179-P in Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Medieval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. II: Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, Washington, D.C.