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LOT 0800
Roman Gemstone Collection
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1/4 - 1/2 in. (2.9 grams total, 9-13 mm).
Including profile bust, advancing lion, two fish and other types; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. [6]
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Kaić, I. ‘Engraved gems as part of the Augustan Propaganda. Some example from Croatia’ in Milićević Bradač, M., Demicheli, D. The century of the brave, Roman conquest and indigenous resistance in Illyricum during the time of Augustus and his heirs, proceedings of the international conference Zagreb, 22-26,9,2014 Zagreb, 2018, figs.5,8, for similar.
Footnotes
One of the rings, representing a seahorse with a trident swimming beside a dolphin, could be connected with the Legio X Fretensis, whose symbol was Neptune and the dolphin, adopted after the battle of Actium.
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LOT 0800
Roman Gemstone Collection
Estimate £380 - 480€440 - 560 (for guidance only)$510 - 650 (for guidance only)
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