AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB AND GOLD FINGER RING

AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB AND GOLD FINGER RING
CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The large beetle with a crosshatched plinth, well-defined legs and head, a hatched border to the thorax, and outlined elytra with corner V winglets, the underside engraved with Bellerophon and the Chimaera, the hero riding the winged horse Pegasus, a spear in his raised hand, the horse with a ring of beads around its neck, the Chimaera in the form of a lion with its head turned back, its mouth open revealing a projecting tongue, a goat head rising from its neck, enclosed within a hatched border; mounted as a ring with a plain hoop, round in section, terminating in a perforated dome at each end, joined to the scarab by a wire threaded through the beetle and the corresponding domes and then coiled around each end
1¼ in. (3.1 cm.) wide; ring size 5¼