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LOT 0956
Late Roman Ring with Warrior
3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (5.19 grams, 24.17 mm overall, 19.97 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)).
With a slender D-section hoop and a lentoid bezel with a stylised figure holding a spear. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. for the type Mills, N., Celtic and Roman Artefacts, Witham, 2007, p.104, fig.RB319 (M194).
Footnotes
This ring belongs to a particular category of Late Roman rings which have a thin and flat sectioned shank with variously decorated bezels, in this case, probably a reference to the iconography of the god Mars.
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