Eastern Imperial Roman Substantial Hollow Gold Finger-Ring

in the wide-shouldered style, set with an extraordinary sardonyx (onyx) banded agate cameo of the head of a ram in left profile, the background and the horn carved from white strata, while the head itself is rendered in the interceding black stratum.

1st - 3rd Century AD

exterior ring diam.: 23 mm. (15/16 in.)

U.S. ring size: 3

#0193

ex: a private European collection, before 1991. More recently, an American collection.

Published: Antiquarium Ltd.; Myth and Majesty (New York, 1992) no.23

Comparanda:
Henig, Martin; The Complete Content Cameos (Turnhout, 2018) pp.205-206, no.218; The British Museum, London mus. nos. 1814, 0704.2732; 1814, 0704.2846