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Two Roman Gold Rings, circa 1st Century B.C/ 3rd Century A.D.

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Lot closes

July 5, 03:01 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

Starting Bid

5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Two Roman Gold Rings

circa 1st Century B.C/ 3rd Century A.D.


one with broad hoop and raised oval bezel embraced by a lotus flower design, the other of simple form with high oval bezel set with a carnelian intaglio finely carved with the head of Hermes facing left.

Widths 3.9 cm. and 2 cm.

Thomas P. Miller, executive assistant at The Cloisters, New York, acquired in Palermo in 1965

Dr. James D. Blackburn, Birmingham, Alabama, acquired from the above in 1990

then by descent to the present owner

For a related finger ring with an intaglio of Hermes in the British Museum, see accession no. 1894.0520.2, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1894-0520-2.

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