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LOT 0152
Roman Gold Ring with Gemstone of Silenus
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (2.58 grams, 22.25 mm overall, 18.29 x 17.68 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)).
Comprising a flat-section facetted hoop with a raised collet set with a red carnelian intaglio showing the profile head of Silenus; the intaglio is of the 1st century and set in a 3rd-century ring.
ProvenancePrivate collection, London.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13534-263674.
Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 217.
FootnotesThe ring belongs to the type VI, variant 1, of Ruseva-Slokoska classification of Roman gold rings. Polygonal-ellipsoid hoops with sectoral planes cut on the outside of the massive hoop, widening and thickening towards the shoulders, are typical of the 3rd century A.D.
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LOT 0152
Roman Gold Ring with Gemstone of Silenus
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£1,000 (EUR 1,160; USD 1,350) +BP*
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Roman Terracotta Double-Spouted Oil Lamp with the Gods Serapis and Cybele
Circa 1st century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With broad discus, triangular reflector and two stub nozzles; the discus with image of Cybele riding a lion, the reflector with facing bust of Serapis with modius above the head. 131 grams, 12.7 cm
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
Roman and Other Mixed Glass Bead Necklace String
1st-4th century A.D. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of mixed beads with an axe-shaped pendant, restrung. 11.93 grams, 40 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Roman Bronze Military Diploma Fragment
Circa 129 A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Irregular fragment of a thin tablet engraved with portions of several horizontal lines of Latin capitals, identified as part of the exterior witness list of the second tablet, or tabella II, of a Roman military diploma; the surviving letter groups may be restored as: '[C.] IV[LI …] [L.] PV[LLI …] [P.] AT[TI …]?'. 3.57 grams, 24 mm
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.
This sequence closely parallels the witness list on a diploma fragment in the Museo de Huelva, inventory 10.619, published as a copy of Hadrian’s constitution for auxiliary troops serving in Syria, issued on 22 March AD 129. Published restorations of the witnesses include Gaius Iulius Eutychius, Lucius Pullius Anthus or Daphnus, and Publius Attius Severus. González Fernández and Bermejo Meléndez, Diplomata Militaria del Museo de Huelva. Military diplomas were certified bronze copies of imperial grants recording citizenship, marriage rights and related privileges.
