A ROMAN GOLD, EMERALD AND PEARL RING, the thick circular gold hoop set with an oval emerald and six pearls (now partly decomposed), 3rd-4th Century A.D.

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A ROMAN GOLD, EMERALD AND PEARL RING, the thick circular gold hoop set with an oval emerald and six pearls (now partly decomposed), 3rd-4th Century A.D.
Finger size F½

Lot Essay

For a similar ring from Athens, cf. Marshall Rings, no. 858 (illustrated Stefanelli, pl. 252) and, also, no. 856. For three similar rings from Amrit in Syria, formerly in the de Clercq collection, cf. Wake 1982, no. 73

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