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LOT 0092
Greek Silver Ring for Skythos
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (7.57 grams, 25.17 mm overall, 20.68 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)).
Ellipsoid bezel with incuse figure of a running horse, Greek text 'ΣΚΥΘΟΑΓΑΘΗ' for 'the sake of Skythos'.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Marshall, F. M., Catalogue of the Finger Rings Greek, Etruscan and Roman in the Departments of Antiquities of the British Museum, London, 1907 (1968), fig. CX, no.43, for the type.
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