AN ETRUSCAN GOLD AND AGATE SCARAB RING, the black and white veined agate scarab with details of wing case (small chip to head), the reverse engraved with a curled figure of a lion surrounded by a rope pattern border, mounted on a gold swivel ring with tapered hoop, the broad shoulders with plain and beaded wire decoration and wire binding, worn, circa 4th Century B.C., scarab ½in. (1.2cm.) long; and an Egyptian style green glazed steatite scarab, in a recent gold mount and hoop, scarab 5/8in. (1.7cm.) long approx. (2)

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AN ETRUSCAN GOLD AND AGATE SCARAB RING, the black and white veined agate scarab with details of wing case (small chip to head), the reverse engraved with a curled figure of a lion surrounded by a rope pattern border, mounted on a gold swivel ring with tapered hoop, the broad shoulders with plain and beaded wire decoration and wire binding, worn, circa 4th Century B.C., scarab ½in. (1.2cm.) long; and an Egyptian style green glazed steatite scarab, in a recent gold mount and hoop, scarab 5/8in. (1.7cm.) long approx. (2)

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Item one: this ring is particularly noteworthy because of the extreme abundance of inclusions of platinum group metals, which must comprise between 5 and 10 of the gold. For a ring with similar shoulder decoration cf. Christofani and Martelli, no. 276. For the banded stone cf. Christofani and Martelli, no. 274. Also, Marshall Rings, no. 340, from Bolsena; and S. Cassani (ed.), The Art of the Italic peoples from 3000 to 300 B.C., Museum Rath, Geneva, 1993-1994, no. 120, p. 223