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LOT 0703
Roman Goddess Fortuna Gemstone in Gold Ring
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (8.73 grams, 24.50 mm overall, 22.09 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).
An amber coloured intaglio of the young goddess Fortuna holding a cornucopia in her left hand, right hand raised to her face; set into a later broad openwork band pierced with addorsed crescents; bezel a flat plate with six pierced lobe extensions, triangles of granulation at each side; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
Provenance
From a London gallery in the late 1970s.
Acquired on the UK art market in 2010.
Property of a Gloucestershire, UK, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. C.C. Oman, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings, London, 1930, no.126.
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