Later Imperial Roman Gold Ring

set with a banded cornelian agate inscribed with an anagram. A large hollow gold gold ring, the bezel decorated with S-spirals of applied wire encircling an unusual orange and white banded agate carved in intaglio with two rows of three Greek letters each, likely an anagram. Intact, eastern Mediterranean.

3rd - 4th Centuries AD

Height: 2.6 cm. (1 in.)

U.S. ring size: 8.5-9

#2820

ex: European private collection of Mme. A, by 1988. Acquired by the current owner in Europe, 1999.

Comparanda: Henkel, Friedrich; Die römischen Fingerringe der Rheinlande und der benachbarten Gebiete. Mit Unterstützung der Rőmisch-germanischen Kommission des Kaiserlich Archäologischen Instituts (Berlin, 1913) taf.14, nos. 274,275,277, pp.40-41 Zwierlein-Diehl, Erica ; Die Antiken Gemmen des Kunsthitorisches Museums in Wien. Bd.3: Die Gemmen der späteren römischen Kaiserzeit, Masken ... Nachträge (Munich, 1991) pp.137-138, nos.2140-2141, pl.79