A GREEK GOLD AND BANDED AGATE FINGER RING
PROPERTY FROM THE LEO MILDENBERG COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ANIMALS
A GREEK GOLD AND BANDED AGATE FINGER RING

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK GOLD AND BANDED AGATE FINGER RING
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The heavy tapering hoop round in section, with disk terminals joined to a stout wire threaded through the perforation of the sliced barrel, engraved with a lioness crouching to the left, her body in profile, her head turned frontal, her tail curving forward between her legs, her right forepaw positioned above her left, with five teats along her underside, a fringe of fur above and along her back, her mane carefully incised, enclosed within a cable border
31/32 in. (2.4 cm.) wide
出版
A.P. Kozloff, ed., Animals in Ancient Art From the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, no. 131.
U. Gehrig, ed., Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden, Antiken der Sammlung Mildenberg, Mainz am Rhein, 1983, no. 131.
G. Zahlhaas, Aus Noahs Arche, Tierbilder de Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden, Part IV, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, no. 88.
P.E. Mottahedeh, ed., Out of Noah's Art, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Jerusalem, 1997, no. 88.