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LOT 0063
Greek Gold Ring with Artemis of Ephesus
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
7/8 in. (6.76 grams, 22.30 mm overall, 19.07 mm internal diameter).
A gold child's ring with Artemis of Ephesus in high-relief within filigree border to bezel.
Provenance
Acquired 1970-1999.
London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11257-189402.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 74, for type; for the iconography see Seiterle, G., 'Artemis, Die Grosse Göttin Von Ephesos. Eine Neue Deutung Der Vielbrüstigkeit Eröffnet Einen Zugang Zum Bisher Unbekannten Kult Der Göttin' in Antike Welt, 1979.
Footnotes
The ring image seems to belong to an older iconography of the goddess, well before the typical iconography with the teats or bull testicles of the famous Hadrianic statue.
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