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LOT 0592
Greek Bronze Ring with Goddess Nike
4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (8.87 grams, 25.51 mm overall, 22.53 x 21.73 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Y, USA 12, Europe 27.51, Japan 26)).
With discoid bezel, showing the Greek goddess of victory, Nike, holding a victory wreath in one hand, and the long ribbons of the latter in the other, the ring itself probably was part of a victory price for the winner of a contest (agon).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market in the 2000s.
Private collection, England.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 68, for type.
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