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LOT 0619
Roman Carnelian Intaglio with Spes
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1/2 in. (0.74 grams, 13 mm).
Standing and facing left with her right hand raised an holding a budding flower; inscription in Greek 'KAΛ(OΣ)' (= beautiful) on the left.
ProvenanceEx R. Sebastia Coch (1908-1969) collection, Barcelona; thence by descent.
English art market, 2018.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00143341.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Boardman, J., Greek Gems and Finger Rings, Early Bronze Age to Late Classical, London, 1970 (2001), nos.228, for similar.
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Bangles did not occur in a vacuum after the Roman invasion but were an integral part of globalising networks of cross-Channel trade and connections with the European mainland in the early first century A.D. According to J. Price bangles were first developed in southern Britain in the late Claudio-Neronian period (A.D. 43–65/70) and that in subsequent periods the craft of bangle-making quickly spread further north with the advance of the Roman army.
