Lot Essay
Item one: cf. E. D. Reeder, Hellenistic Art in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1988, p. 215, no. 114 for a bone ring with similar portrait identified as Arsinoe II (276/5-270 B.C.).
1ST CENTURY B.C.
Details
A Hellenistic bronze ring with Ptolemaic portrait head
1st Century B.C.
The large oval bezel with head of a woman in relief facing in profile to the left wearing a fillet, her hair elaborately dressed in 'ribbed' coiffure and drawn into a plaited coiled chignon at the back, with drapery around her shoulders, hoop missing, 1 in. (2.4 cm.) high; a Roman silver ring with angular shoulders and raised square bezel, the hoop bearing a Greek "May you have good fortune" inscription, 3rd Century A.D., finger size N; a Byzantine gilt bronze ring, the oval bezel engraved with a gilt cross, finger size L½; another bronze ring with fine green patination, the circular bezel showing a Saint with nimbus looking back towards a dove, a crucifix in the centre, finger size T, both circa 7th Century A.D.; and a silver ring with broad flat bezel engraved with three stylized standing figures, finger size P½ (5)
1st Century B.C.
The large oval bezel with head of a woman in relief facing in profile to the left wearing a fillet, her hair elaborately dressed in 'ribbed' coiffure and drawn into a plaited coiled chignon at the back, with drapery around her shoulders, hoop missing, 1 in. (2.4 cm.) high; a Roman silver ring with angular shoulders and raised square bezel, the hoop bearing a Greek "May you have good fortune" inscription, 3rd Century A.D., finger size N; a Byzantine gilt bronze ring, the oval bezel engraved with a gilt cross, finger size L½; another bronze ring with fine green patination, the circular bezel showing a Saint with nimbus looking back towards a dove, a crucifix in the centre, finger size T, both circa 7th Century A.D.; and a silver ring with broad flat bezel engraved with three stylized standing figures, finger size P½ (5)