SIX ROMAN GOLD FINGER RINGS

CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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SIX ROMAN GOLD FINGER RINGS
CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Including one with a wide flat hoop expanding to the bezel, inscribed in Greek, reading: EYTYXWC (happy, lucky, or prosperous); one with a plain hoop, round in section, expanding to the oval bezel, set with a convex oval garnet engraved with a bust of Mercury, his caduceus behind him; one with a plain hoop expanding to the bezel, set with a flat oval carnelian engraved with a leaf; and three with plain hoops set with cabochon stones, one garnet, one eye agate, one drop-shaped carnelian
Largest: 7/8 in. (2.1 cm); ring size 5½ (6)

Provenance

New York Art Market, 1980s.

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Lot Essay

For similar inscriptions on rings and other ancient objects, see pp. 41-62 in van den Hoek, Feissel and Hermann, "'Lucky Wearers.' A Ring in Boston and a Greek Epigraphic Tradition of Late Roman and Byzantine Times," in The Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts.

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