AN ETRUSCAN ENGRAVED GOLD RING, the circular hoop with diamond-shaped bezel engraved with a bird, surounded by a decorative border of beaded wire and granulation, and two trefoils, circa 6th-5th Century B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN ENGRAVED GOLD RING, the circular hoop with diamond-shaped bezel engraved with a bird, surounded by a decorative border of beaded wire and granulation, and two trefoils, circa 6th-5th Century B.C.
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The bezel shape is characteristic of a whole class of Archaic Greek and Etruscan rings, and it is often impossible to establish which are Greek and which Etruscan. However, the hoop and decoration type here point to an almost certain Italian origin

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