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Roman Bronze Ring with Recumbent Deer Facing Back Gemstone Roman Bronze Ring with Recumbent Deer Facing Back Gemstone Roman Bronze Ring with Recumbent Deer Facing Back Gemstone
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LOT 0829

Roman Bronze Ring with Recumbent Deer Facing Back Gemstone

2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (2.30 grams, 21.32 mm overall, 16.00 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K, USA 5 1/4, Europe 9.95, Japan 9)).

With a slender D-section hoop, square raised bezel set with red carnelian intaglio, engraved with a recumbent deer before a small tree, its head resting on its back and a long arrow piercing its back.

Provenance

Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Footnotes

The iconography may refer to a version of a tradition in which Heracles shot the Ceryneian hind before it crossed the river Ladon.

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LOT 0829

Roman Bronze Ring with Recumbent Deer Facing Back Gemstone

Sold for (Inc. bp): £124

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